据离岸工程网站4月20日消息 埃克森美孚周一提出了一项公私合营的碳储存项目提案，该项目将收集美国石化厂排放的全球变暖的二氧化碳，并将其掩埋在墨西哥湾下的水库中。
埃克森美孚低碳解决方案业务总裁乔•布隆马特在接受采访时表示，该计划将要求企业和政府机构在2030年前提供1000亿美元或更多的资金，以储存5000万公吨的二氧化碳，到2040年产能可能翻一番。
布隆马特在周一的一篇博客文章中概述了这一计划。大约两个月前，这家美国最大的石油生产商成立了一个低碳解决方案业务部门，通过销售碳减排技术和服务获利。
休斯顿船运通道是数十家炼油厂和化工厂的所在地，拟建项目面临着巨大的障碍，包括联邦、州和地方政府机构的融资和支持。与此同时，埃克森美孚面临股东反对其在未来几年增加化石燃料产量的目标，这将大大扩大其碳排放。
布隆马特说，选择休斯顿是因为它在海湾附近有大量难以脱碳的工业。
他说：“我们可以创造一种规模经济，在这种经济中，我们可以降低二氧化碳减排的成本，创造就业机会，减少排放。”
吴恒磊 编译自 离岸工程
原文如下：
ExxonMobil Floats $100 Billion Carbon Storage Project
ExxonMobil on Monday floated a proposal for a public-private carbon storage project that would collect planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. petrochemical plants and bury them in reservoirs under the Gulf of Mexico.
The plan would require “$100 billion or more” from companies and government agencies to store 50 million metric tons of CO2 by 2030 with capacity potentially doubling by 2040, Joe Blommaert, president of Exxon’s Low Carbon Solutions business said in an interview.
Blommaert outlined the plan in a blog post on Monday, about two months after the largest U.S. oil producer formed a Low Carbon Solutions business unit to profit from selling carbon-reduction technology and services.
The project proposed for the Houston Ship Channel, home to dozens of refineries and chemical plants, faces enormous hurdles, including financing and support from federal, state and local government agencies. It comes as Exxon faces shareholder opposition to its goal of increasing fossil fuel production in coming years that would greatly expand its carbon emissions.
Houston was chosen because it has a large concentration of “hard-to-decarbonize” industry near the Gulf, said Blommaert.
“We could create an economy of scale where we can reduce the cost of the carbon dioxide mitigation, create jobs and reduce the emissions,” he said.
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