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Sen whitehouse? IPCC?blue vs brown?=<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/30/blue-hydrogen-climate-oil-and-gas/">https://theintercept.com/2022/07/30/blue-hydrogen-climate-oil-and-gas/</a>=huge ccs shut down last yr? (kemper cty, Southern co?]ENERGYExxon plans to build nation’s largest carbon capture project in BaytownShelby Webb Staff writerMarch 1, 2022Exxon Mobil will build one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects, as well as a new hydrogen production plant, at its refining and petrochemical site in Baytown.The company made the announcement Tuesday, though key details are still unkown, such as a timeline and cost. Officials also are still deciding where they will inject the carbon dioxide into geologic formations beneath the Texas coast, said Ed Graham, vice president of ventures for Exxon Mobil Low Carbon Solutions.The goal is for the project to transport and store up to 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, which would make it the largest project of its type in the United States, according to business data company Statista.BIG MONEY: Exxon posts $23B profit last year, highest since 2014The hydrogen plant, meanwhile, would produce up to 1 billion cubic feet a day of hydrogen by using natural gas as a feed stock. That hydrogen would be used in Exxon’s olefins plant in Baytown, reducing on-site emissions by up to 30 percent.“It will be a game-changer for Houston to help kickstart both the hydrogen and (carbon capture and storage) industries,” Graham said. “This will help us more broadly decarbonize our businesses across Houston.”Houston companies and local officials have pitched Houston as the ideal proving ground for the hydrogen industry. The city is already the largest hydrogen producer in the country, producing one-third of the annual U.S. output. There are 48 hydrogen production plants across the region and more than 900 miles of pipelines designed specifically for hydrogen — about one-third of all hydrogen pipelines globally.In late January, Texas Sen. John Cornyn pitched a bipartisan Hydrogen Infrastructure Initiative. If passed, it would create grant programs to encourage construction of hydrogen infrastructure at ports and heavy-industry facilities and provide financing to support hydrogen transport infrastructure.The Exxon Mobil plant would use natural gas [METHANE?!]  to produce what’s known as blue hydrogen. Graham said the carbon dioxide produced from turning the natural gas into hydrogen would be captured and sequestered as part of the new carbon capture project.Exxon Mobil’s plans to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 2050 relies heavily on carbon capture and sequestration. Last spring, executives said they were looking to build a $100 billion carbon capture project along the Ship Channel [HURRICANES] . Also last year, Exxon’s low-carbon solutions venture said it would invest $3 billion in a portfolio of 20 carbon capture projects.Graham said Exxon already injects more carbon dioxide into the earth than any other company. He said the projects are part of “world-scale efforts.”“Houston and Baytown are important to us as a company, and it's important that we help lead the way and to help Houston and its efforts to be a leader in the energy transition,” Graham said. “And we think these (carbon capture) technologies and hydrogen are really critical to make that happen.”shelby.webb@chron.com<div>=</div><div>paywall</div><div>est 100B$ to build</div><div>
</div><div>https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2022/03/08/45q-tax-credit-ccs-ceraweek-exxon-ceo-darren-woods.html</div>=2021 exxon seeks mkt price for carbon?  =axios<p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px solid currentcolor; --tw-translate-x:0; --tw-translate-y:0; --tw-rotate:0; --tw-skew-x:0; --tw-skew-y:0; --tw-scale-x:1; --tw-scale-y:1; --tw-transform:translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-ring-offset-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow-colored:0 0 transparent; --tw-blur:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-grayscale:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-saturate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-sepia:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow:var(--tw-empty, ); 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--tw-ring-offset-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow-colored:0 0 transparent; --tw-blur:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-grayscale:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-saturate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-sepia:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter:var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ordinal:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-slashed-zero:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-figure:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-spacing:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-fraction:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-font-variant-numeric:var(--tw-ordinal) var(--tw-slashed-zero) var(--tw-numeric-figure) var(--tw-numeric-spacing) var(--tw-numeric-fraction); font-weight: 600;"> of multinational oil-and-gas giants Exxon and TotalEnergies gave remarks at a major industry gathering here that underscore Big Oil's differing diversification strategies across the Atlantic<em style="box-sizing: border-box; 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--tw-transform:translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-ring-offset-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow-colored:0 0 transparent; --tw-blur:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-grayscale:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-saturate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-sepia:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter:var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ordinal:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-slashed-zero:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-figure:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-spacing:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-fraction:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-font-variant-numeric:var(--tw-ordinal) var(--tw-slashed-zero) var(--tw-numeric-figure) var(--tw-numeric-spacing) var(--tw-numeric-fraction); font-weight: 600;">What they're saying: Exxon CEO Darren Woods touted Exxon's emphasis on carbon capture, hydrogen and biofuels.<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px solid currentcolor; --tw-translate-x:0; --tw-translate-y:0; --tw-rotate:0; --tw-skew-x:0; --tw-skew-y:0; --tw-scale-x:1; --tw-scale-y:1; --tw-transform:translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-ring-offset-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow-colored:0 0 transparent; --tw-blur:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-grayscale:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-saturate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-sepia:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter:var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ordinal:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-slashed-zero:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-figure:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-spacing:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-fraction:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-font-variant-numeric:var(--tw-ordinal) var(--tw-slashed-zero) var(--tw-numeric-figure) var(--tw-numeric-spacing) var(--tw-numeric-fraction); list-style: url(" https="https" static.axios.com="static.axios.com" img="img" axios-site="axios-site" bullet-filled.svg="bullet-filled.svg" none="none" margin="margin" rem="rem" px="px" padding="padding" font-family="font-family" atiza="Atiza" ui-serif="ui-serif" georgia="Georgia" cambria="Cambria" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" color="color" rgb="rgb"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px solid currentcolor; --tw-translate-x:0; --tw-translate-y:0; --tw-rotate:0; --tw-skew-x:0; --tw-skew-y:0; --tw-scale-x:1; --tw-scale-y:1; --tw-transform:translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-ring-offset-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow-colored:0 0 transparent; --tw-blur:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-grayscale:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-saturate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-sepia:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter:var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ordinal:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-slashed-zero:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-figure:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-spacing:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-fraction:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-font-variant-numeric:var(--tw-ordinal) var(--tw-slashed-zero) var(--tw-numeric-figure) var(--tw-numeric-spacing) var(--tw-numeric-fraction); padding-left: 0.5rem; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 0.75rem;">"We are a company that has a real long history in frankly, manipulating hydrocarbon molecules to make products that the world needs," Woods said at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px solid currentcolor; --tw-translate-x:0; --tw-translate-y:0; --tw-rotate:0; --tw-skew-x:0; --tw-skew-y:0; --tw-scale-x:1; --tw-scale-y:1; --tw-transform:translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-ring-offset-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow-colored:0 0 transparent; --tw-blur:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-grayscale:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-saturate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-sepia:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter:var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ordinal:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-slashed-zero:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-figure:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-spacing:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-fraction:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-font-variant-numeric:var(--tw-ordinal) var(--tw-slashed-zero) var(--tw-numeric-figure) var(--tw-numeric-spacing) var(--tw-numeric-fraction); padding-left: 0.5rem; margin-top: 1.5rem;">"And if you think about the technology that we have been using and will use in this space, it's is continuing to manage hydrocarbon molecules and leveraging the skills that we've developed over the years," he said.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px solid currentcolor; --tw-translate-x:0; --tw-translate-y:0; --tw-rotate:0; --tw-skew-x:0; --tw-skew-y:0; --tw-scale-x:1; --tw-scale-y:1; --tw-transform:translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-ring-offset-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow-colored:0 0 transparent; --tw-blur:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-grayscale:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-saturate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-sepia:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter:var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ordinal:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-slashed-zero:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-figure:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-spacing:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-fraction:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-font-variant-numeric:var(--tw-ordinal) var(--tw-slashed-zero) var(--tw-numeric-figure) var(--tw-numeric-spacing) var(--tw-numeric-fraction); margin: 1.5rem 0px; font-family: Atiza, ui-serif, Georgia, Cambria, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" color="color" rgb="rgb"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px solid currentcolor; --tw-translate-x:0; --tw-translate-y:0; --tw-rotate:0; --tw-skew-x:0; --tw-skew-y:0; --tw-scale-x:1; --tw-scale-y:1; --tw-transform:translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-ring-offset-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow-colored:0 0 transparent; --tw-blur:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-grayscale:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-saturate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-sepia:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter:var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ordinal:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-slashed-zero:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-figure:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-spacing:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-fraction:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-font-variant-numeric:var(--tw-ordinal) var(--tw-slashed-zero) var(--tw-numeric-figure) var(--tw-numeric-spacing) var(--tw-numeric-fraction); font-weight: 600;">The other side: Patrick Pouyanné cited TotalEnergies' moves into areas including renewable power, electricity services, batteries and EV charging that TotalEnergies and other European majors like BP and Shell are increasingly pursuing.<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; 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--tw-ring-offset-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow:0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow-colored:0 0 transparent; --tw-blur:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-grayscale:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-saturate:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-sepia:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter:var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ordinal:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-slashed-zero:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-figure:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-spacing:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-numeric-fraction:var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-font-variant-numeric:var(--tw-ordinal) var(--tw-slashed-zero) var(--tw-numeric-figure) var(--tw-numeric-spacing) var(--tw-numeric-fraction); padding-left: 0.5rem; margin-top: 1.5rem;">"The transition is a matter of two types of new products: new molecules, on which obviously an oil-and-gas company, some DNA, it's biofuels, biogas, hydrogen, and the strategic move we have decided that we will become an electricity and renewable producer and supplier," he said.</li></ul><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" border="border" px="px" solid="solid" currentcolor="currentcolor" tw-translate-x:0="tw-translate-x:0" tw-translate-y:0="tw-translate-y:0" tw-rotate:0="tw-rotate:0" tw-skew-x:0="tw-skew-x:0" tw-skew-y:0="tw-skew-y:0" tw-scale-x:1="tw-scale-x:1" tw-scale-y:1="tw-scale-y:1" tw-transform:translatex="tw-transform:translateX" var="var" tw-translate-x="tw-translate-x" translatey="translateY" tw-translate-y="tw-translate-y" rotate="rotate" tw-rotate="tw-rotate" skewx="skewX" tw-skew-x="tw-skew-x" skewy="skewY" tw-skew-y="tw-skew-y" scalex="scaleX" tw-scale-x="tw-scale-x" scaley="scaleY" tw-scale-y="tw-scale-y" tw-ring-offset-shadow:0="tw-ring-offset-shadow:0" transparent="transparent" tw-ring-shadow:0="tw-ring-shadow:0" tw-shadow:0="tw-shadow:0" tw-shadow-colored:0="tw-shadow-colored:0" tw-blur:var="tw-blur:var" tw-empty="tw-empty" tw-brightness:var="tw-brightness:var" tw-contrast:var="tw-contrast:var" tw-grayscale:var="tw-grayscale:var" tw-hue-rotate:var="tw-hue-rotate:var" tw-invert:var="tw-invert:var" tw-saturate:var="tw-saturate:var" tw-sepia:var="tw-sepia:var" tw-drop-shadow:var="tw-drop-shadow:var" tw-filter:var="tw-filter:var" tw-blur="tw-blur" tw-brightness="tw-brightness" tw-contrast="tw-contrast" tw-grayscale="tw-grayscale" tw-hue-rotate="tw-hue-rotate" tw-invert="tw-invert" tw-saturate="tw-saturate" tw-sepia="tw-sepia" tw-drop-shadow="tw-drop-shadow" tw-ordinal:var="tw-ordinal:var" tw-slashed-zero:var="tw-slashed-zero:var" tw-numeric-figure:var="tw-numeric-figure:var" tw-numeric-spacing:var="tw-numeric-spacing:var" tw-numeric-fraction:var="tw-numeric-fraction:var" tw-font-variant-numeric:var="tw-font-variant-numeric:var" tw-ordinal="tw-ordinal" tw-slashed-zero="tw-slashed-zero" tw-numeric-figure="tw-numeric-figure" tw-numeric-spacing="tw-numeric-spacing" tw-numeric-fraction="tw-numeric-fraction" font-weight="font-weight" xmlns:tw-blur="tw-blur" xmlns:tw-brightness="tw-brightness" xmlns:tw-contrast="tw-contrast" xmlns:tw-drop-shadow="tw-drop-shadow" xmlns:tw-filter="tw-filter" xmlns:tw-font-variant-numeric="tw-font-variant-numeric" xmlns:tw-grayscale="tw-grayscale" xmlns:tw-hue-rotate="tw-hue-rotate" xmlns:tw-invert="tw-invert" xmlns:tw-numeric-figure="tw-numeric-figure" xmlns:tw-numeric-fraction="tw-numeric-fraction" xmlns:tw-numeric-spacing="tw-numeric-spacing" xmlns:tw-ordinal="tw-ordinal" xmlns:tw-ring-offset-shadow="tw-ring-offset-shadow" xmlns:tw-ring-shadow="tw-ring-shadow" xmlns:tw-rotate="tw-rotate" xmlns:tw-saturate="tw-saturate" xmlns:tw-scale-x="tw-scale-x" xmlns:tw-scale-y="tw-scale-y" xmlns:tw-sepia="tw-sepia" xmlns:tw-shadow="tw-shadow" xmlns:tw-shadow-colored="tw-shadow-colored" xmlns:tw-skew-x="tw-skew-x" xmlns:tw-skew-y="tw-skew-y" xmlns:tw-slashed-zero="tw-slashed-zero" xmlns:tw-transform="tw-transform" xmlns:tw-translate-x="tw-translate-x" xmlns:tw-translate-y="tw-translate-y">Of note: Traditional fossil fuels remain the dominant business lines of all the majors.==<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610211008101">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610211008101</a><h2 class="section-title u-h3 u-margin-l-top u-margin-xs-bottom" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" stixgeneral="STIXGeneral" cambria="Cambria" math="Math" lucida="Lucida" sans="Sans" unicode="Unicode" microsoft="Microsoft" serif="serif" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" symbol="Symbol" arial="Arial" ms="MS" margin-top="margin-top" px="px" important="important" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" font-weight="font-weight" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" line-height="line-height">Abstract</h2><div id="aep-abstract-sec-id10" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" stixgeneral="STIXGeneral" cambria="Cambria" math="Math" lucida="Lucida" sans="Sans" unicode="Unicode" microsoft="Microsoft" serif="serif" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" symbol="Symbol" arial="Arial" ms="MS" font-size="font-size" px="px">Production of natural gas from the LaBarge field in southwest Wyoming began in 1986. This gas contains high concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), and from the very beginning, ExxonMobil has successfully implemented several technologies and approaches to effectively manage the substantial volumes of CO2 associated with its production. Many of the technologies and approaches used for managing CO2 at LaBarge are examples of technologies and approaches being proposed for use in carbon capture and storage (CCS) by other industries.The Shute Creek Treating Facility (SCTF) processes the gas produced from the LaBarge field. The SCTF handles the lowest hydrocarbon content natural gas commercially produced in the world. The gas composition entering Shute Creek is 65% CO2, 21% methane, 7% nitrogen, 5% hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and 0.6% helium. The SCTF separates CO2, methane, and helium for sale and removes hydrogen sulfide for disposal.Most of the CO2 captured at Shute Creek is used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). EOR is consistently cited as one of the most viable early opportunities for large scale implementation of CCS. ExxonMobil’s LaBarge operation is the largest deployment of this approach to CCS in the world today. Currently ExxonMobil provides 4 to 5 million tonnes per year of CO2 for EOR. Ongoing facility expansion will increase this capacity to over 7 million tonnes per year in 2010.A concentrated acid gas stream of about 60% hydrogen sulfide and 40% CO2 is injected into a carefully selected section of the same reservoir from which it was produced, safely disposing of the hydrogen sulfide along with approximately 400,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. Other technologies and approaches that have reduced CO2 emissions include the ExxonMobil patented low BTU fuel co-generation system that substantially reduces CO2 emissions when compared to emissions from purchased power.Cumulatively, through the application of these technologies at LaBarge, ExxonMobil will have the capacity to capture and manage over 75% of the CO2 produced from the LaBarge field.Additionally, new technologies are being developed that may provide additional reductions in emissions, either at this site or at others with similarly challenged production streams. Construction of a commercial demonstration facility for ExxonMobil’s Controlled Freeze ZoneTM (CFZ) gas treatment technology has been completed at Shute Creek and operations are about to begin. The CFZTM technology allows the single step separation of CO2 and other contaminants from a natural gas stream without the use of solvents or absorbents. Its successful commercial demonstration would enable the development of increasingly sour gas resources around the world by substantially reducing gas treatment and geo-sequestration costs from these sources</div>
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</a></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2020/05/18/bp-smacks-exxon-upside-head-with-new-green-hydrogen-scheme/">https://cleantechnica.com/2020/05/18/bp-smacks-exxon-upside-head-with-new-green-hydrogen-scheme/</a></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><div>no lnx</div><div>CLEAN POWERBP Smacks Exxon Upside Head With New Green Hydrogen Scheme</div><div>Lightsource BP is looking to make a quick detour into the field of green hydrogen, which could rain all kinds of hurt on natural gas stakeholders.</div><div>
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</div><div>ByTina Casey Published May 18, 2020</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>Why, it seems like only yesterday that ExxonMobil was forecasting a rosy scenario for fossil gas in the sparkling green economy of the future. Now along comes rival BP with a deep dive into green hydrogen. Renewable energy is already threatening gas in the power generation market, and if all goes according to plan renewable H2 will push gas out of the coveted industrial energy marketplace, too.</div><div>
</div><div>The Lightsource BP solar partnership appears to be making a quick segue into green hydrogen (Kansas solar farm via Lightsource BP).</div><div>
</div><div>The Fossil Gas & Hydrogen Connection</div><div>For those of you new to the topic, the huge global market for hydrogen overlaps with fossil gas, aka natural gas. Hydrogen doesn’t just pop up out of nowhere. It has to be produced, and right now the main source of hydrogen is fossil  gas.</div><div>
</div><div>All sorts of hydrogen-reliant industrial activities, from fertilizer and food to fuel and pharmaceuticals, have been pushing the market for gas.</div><div>
</div><div>Gas is also being touted as a cleaner alternative to coal, for steel-making, and for other industrial processes that require heat. This is all on top of the electricity generation sector, in which low cost fossil gas has successfully squeezed coal to second-rate status while laying dubious claim to the “cleaner” title.</div><div>
</div><div>No wonder ExxonMobil has continued to envision a strong position for fossil gas. In a report dated August 28, 2019, the company’s energy demand forecast for 2040 leaned on growth in both the industrial and electricity sectors to conclude that “natural gas grows the most of any energy type, reaching a quarter of all demand” by 2040.</div><div>
</div><div>From Fossil Gas to Green Hydrogen</div><div>Dream on, Klingon. Even before the COVID-19 crisis upended the global economy, the threat of green hydrogen was already looming on the horizon</div><div>
</div><div>Green hydrogen, also referred to as renewable hydrogen, can be produced from water by applying an electrical current. Source the electricity from renewable energy, and there you have sustainable hydrogen from renewable resources.</div><div>
</div><div>Green hydrogen has yet to plant its feet in the commercial market, but the technology has been improving and costs have been coming, partly because the cost of renewable energy has been dropping.</div><div>
</div><div>Back in 2017, BP revived its once-dormant interest in solar power by forming a 50/50 partnership with the solar company Lightsource to form Lightsource BP, and it seems that the partners are already looking beyond clean power to dip into the renewable hydrogen field.</div><div> </div><div>Last week BP Australia announced that it has been greenlighted to explore the idea of producing ammonia with renewable hydrogen at a facility in Geraldton.</div><div>
</div><div>Ammonia is currently made from fossil gas and other gassified fossils. It is mainly used as a fertilizer but it has many other applications in manufacturing as well as refrigeration and water purification. Cutting fossils out of that market would be a big deal — and the Geraldton project is aimed at the global market as well as sales in Australia.</div><div>
</div><div>The water-splitting part of the equation would be handled by a new 1.5 gigawatt renewable energy project, which is where Lightsource BP comes in. In addition to solar, the feasibility study may also include wind.</div><div>
</div><div>How Now, Brown Coal?</div><div>As for that global market, BP is eyeballing Western Australia because of its renewable energy resources and its existing port infrastructure, but plenty of other locations have similar qualities.</div><div>
</div><div>The main difference is location, location, location. Western Australia is just a hop away from leading global markets in Asia including China, Japan, and South Korea.</div><div>
</div><div>In a press statement, BP emphasized Geraldton’s “proximity to large, long-term markets for green hydrogen.”</div><div>
</div><div>Interesting! That could mean a few different things, including markets for renewable hydrogen, markets for green ammonia, and markets where it would make sense to produce green ammonia in one place, transport it to another, and then extract the hydrogen.</div><div>
</div><div>If that last item doesn’t seem to make sense, it might. Depending on the situation, it may be less costly to deploy ammonia as a hydrogen carrier rather than trying to ship large quantities of hydrogen.</div><div>
</div><div>In any case, all of this means more trouble for Australia’s brown coal stakeholders, who have been weirdly banking on a coal-to-hydrogen export project for salvation.</div><div>
</div><div>It also helps pull the rug out from ExxonMobil, which has been clinging to fossil gas even while BP and other legacy oil and gas stakeholders hedge their bets with a sharp pivot into renewable energy and clean technology.</div><div>
</div><div>If the Geraldton project pans out, it will help spark interest in other sectors. Several hydrogen demonstration projects are already taking shape in the metals industry, and there is also some interesting activity under way in the trucking and energy storage fields, to name a few.</div></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">=</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Major Fossil Fuel PR Group is Behind Europe Pro-Hydrogen Push
By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog
December 9, 2020The recent deluge of pro-hydrogen stories in the media that tout hydrogen as a climate solution and clean form of energy can now be linked in part to FTI Consulting — one of the most notorious oil and gas industry public relations firms.According to a new report, titled The Hydrogen Hype: Gas Industry Fairy Tale or Climate Horror Story?, released by a coalition of groups in Europe including Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and Food and Water Action Europe, details the work of FTI to push hydrogen as a clean climate solution in Europe. So far it appears FTI is being quite successful in this endeavor. As the report notes, the “European Commission is most definitely onboard” with the idea of a hydrogen-based economy.FTI Consulting’s previous and ongoing work promoting the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to sell natural gas as a climate solution were recently featured in an article by the New York Times.Among FTI’s misleading claims it defended to the New York Times was that the Permian region in Texas — the epicenter of the U.S. shale oil industry’s fracking efforts — was reducing methane emissions. This claim, however, was based on government data that did not include emissions for actual oil and gas wells, which are major emitters of methane emissions. FTI’s argument is easily disproved as methane emissions in Texas continued to break records in 2019.And now FTI is taking the same approach for hydrogen as it has for natural gas — promoting it as a climate solution despite the evidence to the contrary.One of the main goals of the lobbying efforts to create a “hydrogen economy” in Europe to sell the idea of utilizing existing gas infrastructure (e.g. pipelines) for hydrogen. Hydrogen gas can currently be mixed with methane and be transported by existing pipelines — which is a major selling point for hydrogen’s supporters.However, there is a potential fatal flaw with this idea that has not been addressed. Hydrogen can react with steel to make it brittle. A 2018 paper published in the journal Procedia Structural Integrity, found that “using pipelines designed for natural gas conduction to transport hydrogen is a risky choice” as doing so “may cause fatigue and damage the structure.” This is a widely known and researched issue with hydrogen and pipelines but is a fact that is being left out of the current public relations efforts.The methane industry already has a pipeline explosion problem and hydrogen will increase those risks because it can make steel pipelines more brittle and susceptible to failure and gas leaks.The concept of hydrogen being a clean fuel is also dependent on the idea that the unproven and costly technologies being touted for carbon capture for fossil fuels can be effective in producing low carbon and affordable blue hydrogen.Perhaps the biggest reason green hydrogen isn’t a good choice to decarbonize the economy when compared to electrification is that producing green hydrogen would take enormous amounts of electricity — which can just as easily be used directly to electrify transportation and heating.
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» <a href="https://nofrackedgasbulletins.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/weekly-news-check-in-11-13-20/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;">Read NY Times article excerpt in Weekly News Check-In 11/13/20</a></div>=1021 desmog<div class="elementor-element elementor-element-80fd45e elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-listing-dynamic-link" data-id="80fd45e" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="jet-listing-dynamic-link.default" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 272.391px; margin-bottom: 10px; display: table; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s;"><h3 class="jet-listing jet-listing-dynamic-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; line-height: 1.2; display: table-cell; flex-direction: column;">g<a href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/09/24/green-hydrogen-cheaper-cost-undermine-gas-industry-argument-for-blue-hydrogen/" class="jet-listing-dynamic-linklink" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; justify-content: center; align-items: center; align-self: flex-start; box-shadow: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255) 50%, rgb(252, 204, 39) 0%); background-size: auto 200%; transition: background-position 0.3s ease-out 0s; flex-direction: row; background-position: 0px 90%;">reen Hydrogen’s Rapidly Falling Costs Undermine the Gas Industry’s Argument for Blue Hydrogen</a></h3></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4aad216 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode" data-id="4aad216" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="shortcode.default" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 272.391px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s;"><div class="elementor-shortcode" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A new study finds that hydrogen fuel produced from water using renewable energy will be cheaper than natural gas-based hydrogen with carbon capture by 2030.</div></div></div>=<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/toyota-mirai-electric-car-2640583126.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/toyota-mirai-electric-car-2640583126.html</a>...Hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, or FCEVs, <a href="https://www.toyotasantamonica.com/fuel-cell-vehicle-history-and-developments/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">have been in development for decades</a> but only commercially available since 2016. Toyota, Honda and Hyundai are the only car companies that sell them in the U.S.<div class="rebellt-item col1" data-id="2" data-is-image="False" data-reload-ads="false" id="rebelltitem2" style="">Approximately 1,100 have been sold so far in California, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles.If the very notion of a hydrogen car conjures images of the Hindenburg exploding into flames, that fear is largely unjustified. Yes, hydrogen is flammable. But so is gasoline. The two fuels are roughly comparable in terms of safety.One advantage of a hydrogen car over a plug-in is that it only takes about five minutes to fill up. However, <a href="https://cafcp.org/stationmap" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">there are only 40 places</a> to do it in California — at least right now.And then there's the cost.<a href="https://www.kbb.com/toyota/mirai/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Buying one is about $60,000</a>, which is roughly the same as a plug-in electric, but <a href="https://mediaroom.kbb.com/2019-06-03-Average-New-Car-Prices-Up-Nearly-4-Percent-Year-Over-Year-for-May-2019-According-to-Kelley-Blue-Book" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">almost double the average price</a> Americans are currently paying for a new vehicle.Riverside startup <a href="http://www.stratosshare.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">StratosShare</a> has a plan to make them more accessible and affordable. You can rent them by the hour, day or week, starting at $10 for 60 minutes — fuel and insurance included. Drivers can use an app to locate, reserve, pay for and unlock a zero-emissions Toyota Mirai.CE-CERT, the engineering school at the University of California at Riverside, is <a href="http://www.stratosshare.com/stratossharelocations" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">one of three areas</a> where StratosShare is operating so-called landing zones to pick up and drop off the cars. The other two are in downtown Riverside and at San Bernardino International airport.All of the locations are in areas the California Environmental Protection Agency has identified as a <a href="https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/sb535" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">disadvantaged community</a>, where air quality is poor and incomes are generally lower than in other parts of the state.StratosShare is operating in the Inland Empire, because it received a grant from the state to provide zero-emission rides for Spanish-speaking communities in the Riverside area."We're trying to make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles accessible to the public for people who otherwise wouldn't know what a hydrogen car is or have access to one," said StratosShare co-founder Jonathan Palacios-Avila.Car sharing isn't new. <a href="https://www.zipcar.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Zipcar </a>and General Motors' <a href="https://www.maven.com/us/en/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Maven</a> also rent cars by the hour in various Southern California cities. And <a href="https://www.bluela.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Blue LA</a> offers a zero-emissions car share in Los Angeles using battery-electrics. What's different about StratosShare is that it's the first to use hydrogen fuel cell vehicles exclusively.</div><div class="rebellt-item col1" data-id="3" data-is-image="False" data-reload-ads="false" id="rebelltitem3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Right now, StratosShare has just 15 Toyota Mirais to share. All of them are located in parts of the Inland Empire with high utilization, according to Palacios-Avila.The big idea is that instead of hopping into a ride-hail, or renting a gas-powered car from a more traditional rental car agency, there's another, zero-emissions option to get around.Shams Tanvir, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Riverside, who researches ways to make environmentally-friendly transportation accessible to the masses, said that car sharing is one way to get the most out of our cars.Fewer vehicles are needed overall, because "they're utilizing this car more often. That would create in turn less number of cars on the roads," Tanvir said.And ideally, less pollution because hydrogen cars are emissions free. They do not generate the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change when they are driven.StratosShare is an offshoot of StratosFuel, a company Palacios Avila co-founded five years ago to produce hydrogen fuel. Next year, that company plans to build a renewable hydrogen plant in the Moreno Valley that can produce enough fuel to power 4,000 hydrogen vehicles a day.Hydrogen fuel can be produced renewably, <a href="https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-electrolysis" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">using nothing but water, solar and wind</a>.By making hydrogen fuel more available, renewable and affordable, Palacios-Avila said the costs of owning and operating a hydrogen car will drop to a price that's more similar to gas."The only way is through access — through increased availability," he said.Within the next year, he plans to expand StratosShare to 50 cars and bring the service to Los Angeles and Orange County.</div>This story originally appeared in <a href="https://laist.com/2019/09/20/meet_the_electric_car_that_doesnt_need_to_be_plugged_in.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">LAist</a>. It is republished here as part of EcoWatch's partnership with <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/covering-climate-now" target="self" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Covering Climate Now</a>, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.<div class="post-pager js-listicle-pager" data-listicle-style="" data-async_load_parameters="platform=desktop&display_ads=1&settings=%7B%22enter_url%22%3A+false%2C+%22no_post_section%22%3A+false%2C+%22ads_breaks%22%3A+null%2C+%22prevent_last_break_repetition%22%3A+false%2C+%22use_numeration%22%3A+false%2C+%22ads_order%22%3A+%5B%5D%2C+%22pagination_order%22%3A+%5B%5D%2C+%22list_breaks%22%3A+null%2C+%22reorder_voting%22%3A+false%2C+%22cooldown_in_seconds%22%3A+null%2C+%22source%22%3A+%22post_listicle_settings%22%2C+%22next_post_url%22%3A+null%2C+%22up_down_voting%22%3A+false%2C+%22show_columns_on_mobile%22%3A+false%2C+%22numeration_sort%22%3A+-1%2C+%22use_pagination%22%3A+false%2C+%22body_text_above%22%3A+true%2C+%22use_ads%22%3A+false%2C+%22items_as_posts%22%3A+false%2C+%22multiple_answers%22%3A+false%2C+%22no_redirect%22%3A+false%2C+%22is_guest_voting_allowed%22%3A+true%2C+%22layout_type%22%3A+1%7D" style="display: table; width: 780px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 10px; visibility: hidden; line-height: 2;"><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem" style=""><a href="https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1123535_toyota-mirai-gets-deepest-discount-yet-in-the-midst-of-hydrogen-shortage" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5; display: inline-block; margin-top: 0px !important;">Toyota Mirai gets deepest discount yet—amid hydrogen shortage ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem" style=""><a href="https://www.edmunds.com/toyota/mirai/" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5; display: inline-block; margin-top: 0px !important;">2019 Toyota Mirai Prices, Reviews, and Pictures | Edmunds ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem" style=""><a href="https://ssl.toyota.com/mirai/fcv.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5; display: inline-block; margin-top: 0px !important;">2019 Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle | The Future ... ›</a></li></ul></div>
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