| A windswept North Sea gas platform, manned by half a dozen maintenance workers, seems an unlikely place to embark on a low-carbon revolution. But Royal Dutch Shell’s disused Goldeneye, connected by a 100km pipeline to the Scottish coast, could soon get a fresh lease of life, pumping millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into depleted reservoirs deep below the seabed.
The energy giant is competing for a £1bn pot of money from the UK government to develop what would be the world’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project involving a gas-fired power station at Peterhead, near Aberdeen...............................................Full Article: Source |