Technical struggles at the Gorgon carbon capture storage facility have not dimmed Chevron’s desire to do more CCS in Australia.
could eventually achieve its promised goals, with the oil and gas giant vowing to invest further in the acreage and technology for CCS, in the belief it will underpin the initial wave of hydrogen projects.
“The injection and the sequestration is working. There’s a concurrent problem just because of the inherent nature of the geology of the formation under Barrow Island, where you have a pressure balance that you have to go to in terms of moving fluids between the various zones,” he said. Chevron is believed to have been a bidder and, while Mr Powers declined to comment on that specific process, he confirmed Chevron was seeking more carbon storage acreage globally.“We can’t talk about anything that hasn’t been publicly disclosed at this point.
“Gorgon, Wheatstone, some of the other areas across Western Australia, when you zoom out and look across the basin as a whole, there is favourable geology to do CCUS.
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