Barrow Island has a number of endemic species found nowhere else.
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Chevron’s Gorgon liquefied gas terminal sits on Barrow Island, itself located off the northwest coast of Western Australia 145 km west of Karratha. Gorgon field is a large gas field 100km - 300km offshore from Barrow Island. It is being developed to export from the liquified gas terminal at Barrow Island. The Federal Government requires that it also provides domestic gas for Australia. Chevron promise they will do that. The gas contains 14% CO₂ at extraction. The Federal Government requires that it is stored in aquifers in the world's largest CCS facility. Chevron promise they are doing that.
Tim Baxter's article in the link describes how badly Chevron are failing at meeting their CO₂ storage obligations, both from technical complexity, and (my gloss on it) maybe not really caring about it. There are a lot of things going wrong.
He does also address the obvious: that no storage is going to happen when the carbon in the CH₄ is burned and puts much more CO₂ straight up a smokestack.
Tim Baxter's article in the link describes how badly Chevron are failing at meeting their CO₂ storage obligations, both from technical complexity, and (my gloss on it) maybe not really caring about it. There are a lot of things going wrong.
He does also address the obvious: that no storage is going to happen when the carbon in the CH₄ is burned and puts much more CO₂ straight up a smokestack.
Came here to post the Honest Government ad. It's the most parsimonius scientific review of CCS.
If Norway couldn't get this tech to work, Chevron won't. Exxon will not succeed in its one million acres of the Gulf of Mexico.
Exxon needs that one million acres 1) to prevent offshore wind on those leases, 2) as a geological gish gallop. With that much ocean, they can keep fucking around for a long time before they have to declare their project a failure.
I honestly forget the name of Exxon's LNG project--is it Golden Pass? I think so. On Sabiine Pass, in Texas.
These LNG terminals are doomsday machines
posted by eustatic at 8:02 PM on December 7 [2 favorites]
If Norway couldn't get this tech to work, Chevron won't. Exxon will not succeed in its one million acres of the Gulf of Mexico.
Exxon needs that one million acres 1) to prevent offshore wind on those leases, 2) as a geological gish gallop. With that much ocean, they can keep fucking around for a long time before they have to declare their project a failure.
I honestly forget the name of Exxon's LNG project--is it Golden Pass? I think so. On Sabiine Pass, in Texas.
These LNG terminals are doomsday machines
posted by eustatic at 8:02 PM on December 7 [2 favorites]
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