2025-08-25
CCUS ‘Important Lever’ in QatarEnergy’s Strategy To Develop Low-Carbon Businesses
QatarEnergy targets a total carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) capacity of 7-9 MMTPY by 2030 and over 11 MMTPY by 2035 as part of its commitment to promoting a low-carbon business.
“CCUS is an important lever in our corporate strategy to develop a position in low-carbon businesses,” QatarEnergy said in its ‘Sustainability Report’.
“As our CCUS capacity grows in the coming years, we understand that a CCUS standard and framework is required for the State of Qatar and are contributing to their development,” QatarEnergy said and noted, “Our current 2.2 MMTPY CCUS capacity captures inherent CO2 in the feed gas to the LNG trains and sales gas assets.”
The capture of this CO2 is important in producing lower carbon intensity LNG for export, the report noted.
At the NFE and NFS LNG expansion projects (at North Field), QatarEnergy also intend to incorporate CCUS systems, which will be integrated with existing CCUS capacity.
Since its inception, QatarEnergy has captured and successfully stored around 6.3mn metric tonnes of CO2.
According to QatarEnergy, future CCUS plans include integrating CCUS with existing LNG trains, capturing CO2 in the production of lower-carbon ammonia, capturing CO2 from a new natural gas processing facility supplying feed gas to downstream industries, while capturing post-combustion carbon from gas fired turbines as, well as building CO2 transport pipeline infrastructure.
“The feasibility and implementation of all projects under consideration is subject to QatarEnergy’s robust technical and economic evaluation processes considering all aspects of the CCUS value chain (capture, transport, utilisation and storage),” the report said.
The report includes key highlights in progressing CCUS in 2023. The CO2 Export Project is progressing on schedule, achieving an overall progress of around 94%.
The project will export captured CO2 from QatarEnergy LNG South facilities to Dukhan for enhanced oil recovery purposes.
The FEED project to capture CO2 from seven QatarEnergy LNG North trains and three QatarEnergy LNG South trains was awarded in 2023 and year-end progress was over 50%.
CO2 will be captured from the acid gas enrichment process of the LNG trains and compressed in a centralised facility to meet the required wellhead injection pressure. Six injection wells will be drilled within RLIC as part of the project.
The potential CO2 capture from this project is over 4 MMTPY, significantly contributing to the reduction of GHG intensity of QatarEnergy LNG facilities.
As part of further emissions mitigation from QatarEnergy operations, in 2022, QatarEnergy signed a memorandum of understanding with an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to develop a CCS roadmap.
In 2023, the OEM commenced a feasibility study of implementing post-combustion carbon capture technologies with the objective of capturing around 2.5 MMTPY of CO2 from power plants.
“CCUS is an important lever in our corporate strategy to develop a position in low-carbon businesses,” QatarEnergy said in its ‘Sustainability Report’.
“As our CCUS capacity grows in the coming years, we understand that a CCUS standard and framework is required for the State of Qatar and are contributing to their development,” QatarEnergy said and noted, “Our current 2.2 MMTPY CCUS capacity captures inherent CO2 in the feed gas to the LNG trains and sales gas assets.”
The capture of this CO2 is important in producing lower carbon intensity LNG for export, the report noted.
At the NFE and NFS LNG expansion projects (at North Field), QatarEnergy also intend to incorporate CCUS systems, which will be integrated with existing CCUS capacity.
Since its inception, QatarEnergy has captured and successfully stored around 6.3mn metric tonnes of CO2.
According to QatarEnergy, future CCUS plans include integrating CCUS with existing LNG trains, capturing CO2 in the production of lower-carbon ammonia, capturing CO2 from a new natural gas processing facility supplying feed gas to downstream industries, while capturing post-combustion carbon from gas fired turbines as, well as building CO2 transport pipeline infrastructure.
“The feasibility and implementation of all projects under consideration is subject to QatarEnergy’s robust technical and economic evaluation processes considering all aspects of the CCUS value chain (capture, transport, utilisation and storage),” the report said.
The report includes key highlights in progressing CCUS in 2023. The CO2 Export Project is progressing on schedule, achieving an overall progress of around 94%.
The project will export captured CO2 from QatarEnergy LNG South facilities to Dukhan for enhanced oil recovery purposes.
The FEED project to capture CO2 from seven QatarEnergy LNG North trains and three QatarEnergy LNG South trains was awarded in 2023 and year-end progress was over 50%.
CO2 will be captured from the acid gas enrichment process of the LNG trains and compressed in a centralised facility to meet the required wellhead injection pressure. Six injection wells will be drilled within RLIC as part of the project.
The potential CO2 capture from this project is over 4 MMTPY, significantly contributing to the reduction of GHG intensity of QatarEnergy LNG facilities.
As part of further emissions mitigation from QatarEnergy operations, in 2022, QatarEnergy signed a memorandum of understanding with an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to develop a CCS roadmap.
In 2023, the OEM commenced a feasibility study of implementing post-combustion carbon capture technologies with the objective of capturing around 2.5 MMTPY of CO2 from power plants.
Source: GULF TIMES