Masdar

Project Overview

Masdar is Abu Dhabi’s renewable and alternative energy and clean technology initiative. Masdar and Hydrogen Energy, a joint venture between BP Alternative Energy and Rio Tinto, have teamed up to design and build an industrial-scale hydrogen-fired power plant, including CO2 capture, to be located in Abu Dhabi. Natural gas would be processed in the plant to produce hydrogen and CO2. The hydrogen would then be used to fuel gas turbines and generate 420MW of low-carbon electricity, which is more than 5% of all of Abu Dhabi’s current power generation. Rather than being emitted to the atmosphere, approximately 90% of the CO2 would be captured, ready for transportation and injection into a producing oil field, which would replace the natural gas currently being injected into the field to maintain pressure. The injected CO2 has the potential to enable the production of previously unrecoverable oil. As the oil is forced out the CO2 would remain stored securely and permanently beneath the oil field's natural impervious seal. Construction of the plant is currently anticipated to being in early 2009, with commercial operation beginning in 2012.

Project Type

Capture & Storage.

Location

Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Type of CO₂ Storage Operation

Enhanced Oil Recovery.

Major Stakeholders

BP Alternative Energy
Rio Tinto

Project Scale

Commercial.

Project Start Year: unknown

	2012

	Unknown
	1.7 Mt/a
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Project Cost

Unknown.

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