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ISPE, Romgaz and Transgaz team up to develop Romania's first CCS project

Companies Romgaz and Transgaz joined forces with the Institute for Studies and Power Engineering - ISPE for the implementation of the carbon dioxide capture and geological storage (CCS) technology by the development of the first such Demonstration Project in Romania, reads a Romgaz release.

Notice of these plans was also sent to Minister of Environment and Forestry Laszlo Borbely, on the occasion of his visit last weekend to Medias.

As concerns the companies' involvement in the absorption of EU funds, representatives of the National Natural Gas Company Romgaz SA and of the National Natural Gas Transmission Company Transgaz, said that they currently cooperate with the Institute for Studies and Power Engineering with a view to implementing this CO2 geo-sequestration project.

The government of Romania, through the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business Environment (MECMA), intends to access EU funds made available through the NER300 competition that envisages demonstration projects in the line of low-carbon and renewable energy products.

The first Romanian demonstration project for carbon dioxide capture and storage will be conducted in 2011 at the Turceni Energy Complex (south-western Romania) and requires an investment of 500 million euros, in money that will come from the European Union, through the NER 300 European Program.

The carbon capture and storage project about to materialize in Romania is intended for the lignite-fired 330 MW Unit No. 6 of the Turceni Complex.

The necessary documentation of the project was designed by several companies and institutes that include the Institute for Studies and Power Engineering and the National Institute for Marine Geology and Geo-ecology Research and Development (GeoEcoMar).

Specialists in the field say that the new project should allow the capture and storage of at least 85 pct of the carbon dioxide generated by industrial activity.

In mid-August, MECMA joined the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCSI) in Canberra, Australia. GCCSI membership implies the exchange of knowledge, information and expertise on the development and carrying out of safe, profitable and environmentally sustainable commercial-scale CCS projects, as well as of carbon capture, transport and storage technologies.

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