據海上能源4月21日報道，澳大利亞石油生產和勘探協會(APPEA)支持氣候變化管理局（CCA）對碳捕集技術的關注，此前CCA的新報告強調了碳捕獲利用和封存(CCUS)對實現凈零排放的重要性，并敦促對該技術提供更多支持。

APPEA最近強調，氣候變化管理局的一份新政策文件《減少、移除和儲存：碳封存在加速澳大利亞脫碳中的作用》強調了CCUS對澳大利亞的“重大經濟和環境效益”。

CCA發布這份報告之前，政府間氣候變化專門委員會估計，到2050年，全球每年必須消除約60億噸二氧化碳，到2100年，每年約140億噸二氧化碳，才能有50%的機會將全球變暖控制在1.5攝氏度以下。

CCA的這份報告包含23條政策見解，作為深入研究的一部分，旨在幫助政策制定者、排放者和市場更好地了解如何擴大、加速和負責任地使用封存。

CCA委托聯邦科學與工業研究組織(CSIRO)報告澳大利亞的碳封存潛力，以便能夠根據碳封存在支持日益雄心勃勃的減排目標方面的作用向政府提出建議。

CCA與清潔能源監管機構合作，共同資助CSIRO技術報告和CSIRO領導的技術研討會。該文件考慮了一系列碳封存方法，包括基于自然的解決方案。然而，正如APPEA所解釋的那樣，其強調“政府應該優先發展長期地質和礦物儲存技術”，主要是CCUS。

APPEA首席執行官薩曼莎·麥卡洛克(Samantha McCulloch)表示，碳捕獲被廣泛認為對保護環境和實現凈零排放至關重要，同時創造新的經濟機會。油氣行業支持CCA對該技術的更大方向和支持的呼吁。

據McCulloch稱，由CSIRO、國際能源署（IEA）和政府間氣候變化專門委員會（IPCC）等機構支持的CCUS被視為“實現凈零排放的關鍵”。最近的保障機制政策只會加強對碳捕獲的關注，以減少排放。

在最近提交的2023—2024年聯邦預算中，油氣行業呼吁制定國家CCUS規劃圖，以提供明確的政策方向，推進碳管理中心，并促進澳大利亞成為區域二氧化碳儲存的領導者。

McCulloch補充道，澳大利亞不僅有機會加速實現凈零排放，而且有機會創建一個新的行業，并利用CCUS的全球勢頭，約有300個商業項目正在開發中。但政府領導至關重要。

此外，CCA建議“各國政府應探索風險分擔方法(例如CCS中心)，包括有機會共同投資于地下盆地分析，以實現陸上和海上的地質封存，以及儲存和運輸的關鍵基礎設施。

作為澳大利亞油氣勘探和生產行業的有效代言者，APPEA認為，澳大利亞天然氣提供了釋放該國可再生能源潛力所需的“穩定可調度能源”。

澳大利亞石油生產與勘探協會（Australian Petroleum Production&Exploration Association）認為，天然氣行業是“提供CCUS和低碳氫氣等階梯式變革技術的關鍵”，這些技術被認為是實現凈零排放的“關鍵”，不僅在能源行業，而且在幾乎沒有替代脫碳技術的難以削減的行業。

McCulloch總結道，世界各國政府正在迅速增加對CCUS的支持，美國的《通貨膨脹減少法案》(Inflation Reduction Act)改變了規則，為大規模部署該技術提供了重要的財政激勵。

郝芬 譯自 海上能源

原文如下：

Carbon capture utilisation and storage to bring ‘significant’ benefits to Australia

The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) has thrown support behind the Climate Change Authority’s focus on carbon capture technology, after the importance of carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to reaching net-zero was highlighted in CCA’s new report, urging for more support to back the technology.

APPEA recently highlighted that a new Climate Change Authority’s policy paper, titled Reduce, remove and store: The role of carbon sequestration in accelerating Australia’s decarbonisation, underscored “the significant economic and environmental benefits” of CCUS for Australia.

The CCA released this report following estimates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that around 6 billion tonnes of CO2 would have to be removed per year by 2050 globally, and about 14 billion tonnes per year by 2100 for a 50 per cent chance of limiting global warming to below 1.5°C.

The Climate Change Authority’s paper contains 23 policy insights as part of a deep dive designed to help policymakers, emitters and markets better understand how sequestration can be scaled up, accelerated and used responsibly.

The CCA commissioned the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to report on Australia’s sequestration potential to be able to base its advice to the government on the role of carbon sequestration in supporting increasingly ambitious emissions reduction targets.

The CCA partnered with the Clean Energy Regulator to co-fund the CSIRO technical report and the CSIRO-led technology workshops. The paper considers a range of carbon sequestration approaches, including nature-based solutions. However, it emphasises that the “government should prioritise the development of long-lived geological and mineral storage technologies,” primarily CCUS, as explained by APPEA.

Samantha McCulloch, APPEA Chief Executive, remarked: “Carbon capture is widely recognised as critical to protecting the environment and getting to net-zero while creating new economic opportunities. The oil and gas industry supports the CCA’s calls for greater direction and support for this technology.”

According to McCulloch, the CCUS, which is backed by authorities such as the CSIRO, the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is seen as “critical to reaching net-zero. The recent Safeguard Mechanism policy has only strengthened the case for a greater focus on carbon capture to reduce emissions.”

In its recent 2023-24 Federal Budget Submission, the oil and gas industry called for a national CCUS roadmap to provide clear policy direction, progress carbon management hubs and promote Australia as a regional CO2 storage leader.

“Australia has an opportunity to not only accelerate to net-zero but also create a new industry and ride the wave of global momentum for CCUS, with around 300 commercial projects in development. But government leadership is critical,” added McCulloch.

Furthermore, the Climate Change Authority recommends that “governments should explore risk-sharing approaches (e.g. CCS hubs) including opportunities to co-invest in subsurface basin analyses for geological sequestration both on and offshore, and keystone infrastructure for storage and transport.”

As the effective voice of Australia’s oil and gas exploration and production industry, APPEA believes that Australian natural gas provides “the firm dispatchable energy” required to unlock the country’s renewable energy potential.

Earlier this year, APPEA pointed out that investment in new gas supply and emissions reduction measures would put sustained downward pressure on gas prices, help deliver energy security, and fast-track the path to net-zero.

The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association sees the gas industry as “pivotal to delivering step-change technologies” such as CCUS and low-carbon hydrogen, which are perceived as “critical” to achieving net-zero, not only in the energy sector but also in hard-to-abate industries where few alternative decarbonisation technologies are available.

“Governments around the world are rapidly increasing their support for CCUS, with the Inflation Reduction Act in the United States a game changer providing significant financial incentives for large-scale deployment of the technology,” concluded McCulloch.