Beach Energy has announced the successful commissioning and ramp-up of its Moomba Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project—one of largest CCS projects in the world.
Beach says all facilities, pipelines and injector wells have been commissioned and brought online.
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“Following first CO2 injection on 30 September 2024, daily injection has reached capacity rates, exceeding expectations for the commissioning phase and indicating the project’s potential to capture and store approximately 1.7 million tonnes of CO2 per annum,” the company said in a statement.
Moomba CCS is adjacent to the Moomba Gas Plant in the Cooper Basin, South Australia. The project comprises a four-stage compressor, five injection wells, CO2 dehydration and CO2 pipelines. Depleted underground reservoirs in the Strzelecki and Marabooka fields will safely store vented reservoir CO2 from the Moomba Gas Plant.
Beach Energy managing director and CEO Brett Woods said, “At full rates, Moomba CCS will safely store all vented reservoir CO2 from the Moomba Gas Plant and will abate approximately one-third of Beach’s current equity emissions.
“It is widely accepted that natural gas will play a critical role in the energy transition and that CCS is a necessary enabler for low emissions energy supply.
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The International Energy Agency has stated it will be near impossible to reach net zero by 2050 without CCS.
“Thanks to Beach’s significant investment in Moomba CCS, we are now well on track to reach our targeted net Scope 1 and 2 emissions intensity reduction of 35% by 2030,” Woods said.
