Norway’s Aker to Invest in Pioneering Carbon Capture Facility
Aker has decided to build what is likely to become the world’s first and largest CO2 capture facility of its kind, designed to capture 100,000 tons of CO2 from the gas powered energy plant and the Kaarstoe gas processing plant, The Norway Post reported. The facility could be in operation as early as 2009. Aker said that in recent years the company has worked intensively on developing new CO2 capture technology. It says the primary purpose of the new facility is not primarily further technology development; the objective is the development of construction methods and effective execution models that make carbon sequestration so inexpensive that it becomes cheaper to clean emissions than to pollute.