挪威将斥资18亿美元建设全球首个CCS项目

据路透社9月21日消息称，挪威周一表示，该国将为全球首个碳捕捉和储存(CCS)项目提供168亿克朗(18.3亿美元)的融资，该项目预计总投资为251亿克朗。

几十年来，各国政府、能源公司和行业一直将CCS列为减少排放和向低碳未来迈进的计划的核心，但其发展缓慢，世界上几乎没有商业项目存在。

根据该计划，挪威政府将资助北极光（Northern Lights），这是欧洲石油巨头Equinor、壳牌和道达尔的合资企业，它将把捕获的碳排放运输并掩埋在北海的近海地质地层中。

奥斯陆还将资助挪威南部一家水泥厂的碳捕获项目，该水泥厂由德国海德堡水泥公司运营。

如果芬兰Fortum能够获得外部资金支持，政府还将资助其运营的位于奥斯陆的垃圾焚烧厂。

总理厄尔纳·索尔伯格说，该项目以维京人使用的船只命名，是“政府工业和气候努力的里程碑”。

她在新闻发布会上表示:“该项目将减少排放，促进新技术的发展，从而创造新的就业机会。”

这是这个产油国第二次尝试启动CCS。十年前，挪威曾试图在一家天然气发电厂捕获温室气体排放。

曹海斌 摘译自 路透社

原文如下：

Norway to Spend $1.8 Billion on World's First Full-Scale CCS Chain

Norway said on Monday it would finance 16.8 billion crowns ($1.83 billion) out of an estimated total investment of 25.1 billion crowns for what could be the world's first full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.

CCS has been cited by governments, energy companies and industry for decades as central to plans to reduce emissions and move to a lower-carbon future, but development has been slow and there are few commercial projects in existence in the world.

Under the plan, the Norwegian government would finance Northern Lights, a joint venture between European oil majors Equinor, Shell and Total that would transport and bury the captured emissions in an offshore geological formation in the North Sea.

Oslo would also fund a carbon capture project at a cement factory in southern Norway operated by Germany's Heidelberg Cement.

The government would also finance a facility at a waste incineration plant in Oslo operated by Finland's Fortum - if the latter can find external financial support.

Named Longship after the vessel used by Vikings, the project was a "milestone in the Government's industry and climate efforts", Prime Minister Erna Solberg said.

"The project will lead to emission cuts and facilitate development of new technology and thus new jobs," she told a news conference.

This is the second time the oil-producing nation has tried to launch CCS. A decade ago Norway tried to capture greenhouse gas emissions at a gas power plant.