Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), the world’s largest testing facility for carbon capture, and DNV GL have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deliver advisory and verification services for CO2 capture technology. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the only available technology for mitigating climate change in certain industries such as cement production and the use of oil and gas.
Under the agreement, the partners will offer advisory and verification services at TCM’s facilities on the west coast of Norway and other worldwide carbon capture projects. TCM and DNV GL will offer services to both companies using TCM’s facility and external actors in the carbon capture technology sphere.
It is vital for us to ensure that carbon capture technology is sufficiently advanced to be used at our facility. Verification and advisory services are a natural progression of the quality assurance measures which we have in place for our collaboration partners that are using TCM’s facility,
…said CEO of TCM, Ernst Axelsen.
We have been working with both CCS and verification of new technologies for the energy sector for a long time. Combining these two capabilities together with TCM is a natural extension of our expertise. DNV GL and TCM will together ensure that the technologies tested and verified at the TCM facilities will be ready for full-scale deployment. While we will ensure the technical feasibility of these technologies, the industry and policy makers together need to make CCS work commercially for it to make a global impact,
…says Liv Hovem, CEO DNV GL – Oil & Gas.
CCS is the process of capturing and storing greenhouse gases from industrial processes to prevent the planet from warming to unsustainable levels, and TCM currently has a focus on the capture stage.
