13-02-2009 Undersøgelse skønner 20 mia. USD øremærket til kommercialisering af CCS

A new study from Emerging Energy Research, Global Carbon Sequestration Markets &
Strategies, 2009-2030, analyzes the role of carbon policies in driving sequestration
development, evaluates the strategies of oil and gas players, power companies and
entrepreneurial upstarts, and measures the sequestration industry’s long-term growth
outlook. Key trends addressed in the study include:

• Globally, EER estimates that more than US$20 billion in funding has been
earmarked to commercialize CCS, concentrated in Europe, Australia, the US,
Canada and Japan. 2009 is a crucial year, with major technology investment and
carbon policy decisions hanging in the balance.
• Big oil and gas players are leading the carbon sequestration industry forward.
The six supermajors led by BP, Shell and ConocoPhillips hold the key for long-term
global scaling of the sequestration industry. Active in several demonstration projects,
this group has targeted sequestration to unlock production of CO2 intensive energy
sources and to tap downstream synergies for hydrogen production.
• Regional, upstream leaders become early movers. Led by StatoilHydro and
followed by Japex and Gaz de France, these players are building up sequestration
know how, and positioning sequestration as a vehicle for international expansion.
• Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) remains the most attractive commercial option
for sequestration. North American players including Kinder Morgan, Denbury
Resources and Occidental Petroleum are pro-actively seeking industrial CO2-EOR as
a competitive niche. Traditional midstream oil and gas companies are also increasing
their attention to EOR and sequestration for the enormous CO2 pipeline infrastructure
and CO2 marketing opportunites.