From left: Abdullah Al Khaled, Consultant at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Bandar Al Qahtani, Energy Engineer at Saudi Aramco, Dr Mohammed Al Juaied, Chief Technologist, Carbon Management and Hydrogen Production Team at Rand D Centre of Saudi Aramco, and Esam Al Sayid, Environmental Engineer at Air Quality Unit of the Saudi Environmental Protection Department. Salim Matramkot
DOHA: Saudi Arabia is working on an innovative system to capture a type of CO2, like that emitted by industrial facilities, and dispose of it by injecting it in depleted oil reservoirs.
The technology of Carbon capture utilization and sequestration allows capturing large quantities of CO2 from a man-made industrial source and inject it underground to enhance oil recovery.
The main objective of such a method is to safely and permanently store CO2. This is the only commercially viable technology for CCS and it has the potential to be greatly expanded, enhancing efforts to reduce CO2 emissions while enabling additional hydrocarbon recovery from mature fields.
In the context of the UN climate change conference, Mohammed Al-Juaied, Chief Technologist leading the Carbon Management and Hydrogen Production Team at Saudi Aramco’s R&D Center, Saudi Aramco, talked about the Saudi Arabia Carbon Capture System (SACCS).
This system is used in cars and it allows a higher capture of CO2, and “it will give long term benefits”, added the engineer. Saudi Arabia is also working on a method to remove major polluters released by petrochemical facilities that can be harmful for the human being. This technique reaches a removal efficiency of between 80 and 90 percent.
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