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Total inaugurates Lacq project
Projects / Policy, Jan 12 2010 (Carbon Capture Journal)
- Total has inaugurated Europe’s first end-to-end carbon capture, transportation and storage demonstration facility, in Lacq, southwestern France.
The ceremony was attended by Valérie Létard, France’s Secretary of State for Green Technology and Climate Negotiations.
The €60-million project uses an oxycombustion carbon capture technology developed by Air Liquide. Pure oxygen is substituted for air in an industrial boiler to produce smaller amounts of flue gas that is 90% carbon.
The carbon is piped 27 kilometers from the Lacq plant to the Rousse geological storage site, where it is injected into a depleted natural gas reservoir located 4,500 meters belowground.
Over the next two years, around 120,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide will be captured and stored, equivalent to the amount that would be emitted by 40,000 cars over the same period.
The launch of the demonstration project was preceded by wide-ranging consultation of local stakeholders. Monitoring will continue for three years after the two-year carbon injection period.
