据管道&天然气杂志网5月17日报道，美国最大的两家化石燃料公司雪佛龙公司(Chevron Corp.)和埃克森美孚公司(Exxon Mobil Corp.)正在寻求澳大利亚对碳捕集与封存(CCS)和氢项目的支持，因为它们希望增加投资，以降低碳排放强度。
尽管作为世界最大的液化天然气出口国的澳大利亚试图满足日本和韩国等顶级买家对液化天然气的需求，但扩大CCS项目和可再生能源制氢对其经济摆脱碳排放至关重要。
雪佛龙澳大利亚公司能源转型部门总经理David Fallon在澳大利亚石油生产和勘探协会(APPEA)会议上表示，支持不仅仅是金钱，还需要政治支持。
澳大利亚的目标是到2030年将碳排放量减少43%，到2050年实现净零排放。该国是世界上最大的商业CCS项目Gorgon的所在地，该项目由雪佛龙公司运营，该公司一直在努力达到目标产能。
Fallon指出，雪佛龙之所以优先考虑在美国投资CCS，是因为税收抵免等有利政策措施。
Fallon表示，希望在预算结束时毛利会有所不同。
澳大利亚于周二宣布了扩大其海上CCS能力的计划，此前美国采取了重大激励措施，英国承诺在未来20年内为此类项目提供240亿美元。
CCS过程捕获工业活动产生的二氧化碳，将其运输随即储存在地下。
埃克森美孚亚太地区低碳解决方案总裁Irtiza H Sayyed也在会议上表示，“澳大利亚实际上处于非常有利的地位，只要我们有正确的政策来支持实现。为了让长期投资有意义，我们需要有可预测的政策支持”。
日本最大的油气勘探公司Inpex Corp.和澳大利亚最大的独立天然气生产商伍德赛德能源公司（Woodside Energy Group）的高管也推动了政策支持的确定性。
Inpex高级副总裁Bill Townsend表示，“澳大利亚相关部门决策者似乎出于某种原因对这项技术持怀疑态度。感觉是他们不太支持这项技术”。
另外，澳大利亚上周在其年度预算中宣布，将投资20亿澳元，以扩大其绿氢产业的发展。
他说，“我们应该考虑成本。理所当然的，那就是蓝氢。蓝氢是由天然气生产的，通过CCS去除碳排放。如果你想激发这个领域的发展，并将氢气加入混合燃料中，其必须具有经济吸引力”。
郝芬 译自 管道&天然气杂志网
原文如下：
Chevron, Exxon Seek State Backing for Australia Carbon Capture, Hydrogen Projects
Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp., the two largest U.S. fossil fuel companies, are seeking Australia's backing for carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen projects as they look to increase investment in a bid to slash intensity of carbon emissions.
Scaling up CCS projects and generation of hydrogen from renewable energy are crucial for Australia, the world's largest exporter of LNG, to wean its economy off carbon, even as it seeks to meet LNG demand from top buyers such as Japan and South Korea.
"Support doesn't just need to be dollars but it's that political support," David Fallon, general manager of energy transition at Chevron Australia, said at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) conference.
Australia aims to cut carbon emissions by 43% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. It is home to the world's largest commercial CCS project, Gorgon, run by Chevron, which has struggled to hit capacity.
Fallon pointed to how Chevron was prioritising CCS investment in the United States because of favourable policy measures such as tax credits.
"That marginal dollar that you're looking to spend at the end of your budget, that will make a difference," Fallon said.
Australia announced its own plans to scale up its offshore CCS capability on Tuesday, following big incentives by the United States, and Britain's $24 billion commitment in such projects over the next two decades.
A CCS process captures carbon dioxide (CO2) generated from industrial activity, transports it, and then stores it underground.
"Australia is actually in a very advantageous position, as long as I think we have the right policies that will enable that," Irtiza H Sayyed, president of ExxonMobil's low carbon solutions in Asia Pacific, also said at the conference.
"For long-term investments to make sense, we need to have predictable policy," Sayyed said.
Executives from Inpex Corp., Japan's biggest oil and natural gas explorer, and Australia's top independent gas producer Woodside Energy Group also pushed for policy certainty.
"Ministers, senior ministers, and governments seem to be quite skeptical of the technology for whatever reason. The feeling is that they're not so supportive of it," said Bill Townsend, senior vice president at Inpex.
Separately, Australia announced in its annual budget last week it would invest A$2 billion to scale up development of its green hydrogen industry.
"We should be thinking about the cheapest form that we can get. It stands to reason that would be blue hydrogen," Townsend said. Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas with carbon emissions removed via CCS.
"If you want to stimulate that and get hydrogen into the mix, it has to be economically attractive."
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