An award for a large-scale carbon capture plant at a pulp and paper mill has been presented to SLB and Aker Carbon Capture. This mill is based on the U.S. Gulf Coast and the aim around this mill is to remove 800,000 tonnes of carbon emissions every year.

There is a significant amount of carbon removal opportunities within North America’s pulp and paper industry, which is around 130 million tonnes every year. Through following a system which focuses on capturing and storing these emissions permanently, the site has the potential to achieve negative emissions, due to the way more carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere than is being emitted from the process.

The FEED of the carbon capture plant already has a concept design and this is based off of the SLB-ACC JV’s modularized Just Catch™ 400. This is an excellent, standardised and modular technology, which has the ability to enable the pre-fabrication of carbon capture units. So far, it has been shown that the JV is already delivering both Just Catch™ and Big Catch™ solutions to a variety of industrial sites within the bioenergy, cement and waste-to-energy sectors.

Recent announcements by the SLB-ACC JV and CO280 on their collaboration came just before the creation of this contract and these announcements involved the companies looking to develop large-scale CDR projects within the United States and Canada pulp and paper industries. The plan that these companies has created, also encompasses their collaboration with Microsoft, which involves their plan to scale the full value chain of carbon removal within the United states and Canada. This plan will focus on capturing and permanently sequestering biogenic CO2 at pulp and paper mills.

Chief executive officer, SLB-ACC JV, Egil A. Fagerland, commented, “This contract represents a key milestone in our partnership with CO280 to deliver large-scale carbon capture solutions for the North American industry. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with CO280 and their pulp and paper partner to prepare for a full-scale carbon capture plant through the FEED.”

Chief executive officer, CO280, Jonathan Rhone, added, “Partnerships are the key to removing megatons of carbon before 2030: We are proud of the partnerships we have established in both the pulp and paper industry and CDR markets and of our collaboration with the SLB-ACC JV as a key technology partner. By capturing and permanently storing biogenic CO2 at mills, we can unlock a vast carbon removal opportunity in the pulp and paper industry and scale up the CDR market.”