Canadian Natural Gas Industry Moving Ahead with Carbon Capture, Storage Projects
The Alberta oil and natural gas industry entered 2023 with plans to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) to score an 18-fold jump in discarding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from production, according to the Canada Energy Regulator (CER).
Related Knowledge Center: Carbon capture
The federal government is investing heavily in the development of carbon capture and storage (or sequestration), which offers the enticing prospect of preventing carbon dioxide emissions produced during combustion from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change. But the technologies involved, while proven, remain expensive, an obstacle to widespread adoption.