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NEW DELHI: Essar Oil UK has announced the selection of a second key licensor technology provider, Topsoe, for the planned EET Industrial Carbon Capture (ICC) facility at Stanlow, the company said in a statement.
Topsoe will provide its sustainable flue-gas treatment technology SNOXTM, it added. “We are ready to move into the next phase of Essar Oil UK’s decarbonisation strategy,” the statement released on December 22 quoted Deepak Maheshwari, CEO of Essar Oil UK.
“With an investment of $1.2 billion, Essar Oil UK is positioned to be the world’s first low carbon refinery.
The industrial carbon capture facility, combined with our upcoming hydrogen fuel switching project, will reduce the refinery’s CO2 emissions by 95 per cent. Topsoe is a valuable partner in this endeavour. With Topsoe SNOX™ technology we are getting a well proven and highly sustainable flue-gas treatment,” he further stated.
The company said the step towards decarbonising the refinery by reducing about two million tons of CO2 emissions will make it the world’s first low carbon refinery and a producer of low carbon fuels.
Essar’s overall decarbonisation strategy plans to reduce refinery emissions with two state-of-the-art projects. The ICC project announced at Stanlow in November 2022, aims to be operational by 2028. The project will result in an annual emissions reduction of about one million tons of CO2. Also, switching from natural gas to hydrogen as fuel source will result in an annual emissions reduction of about one million tons of CO2.
The statement also quoted Elena Scaltritti, CCO at Topsoe, saying, “We are thrilled to have been chosen as technology licensor for Essar Oil UK and support them in meeting their decarbonisation targets. The agreement represents a landmark step for Topsoe’s development in the United Kingdom, and we look forward to working with Essar on this important project, which is a great example of how the fossil industry can decarbonize itself.”
