ADNOC to turn captured CO2 in rocks

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has partnered with Omani carbon mineralisation firm 44.01 to trial a new technology that can permanently mineralise CO2 into rocks in Fujairah.

PHOTO: ADNOC announced a partnership with the FNRC, Masdar and 44.01 to pilot technology that permanently mineralises CO2 in rock formations. ADNOC

Fujairah Natural Resources Corporation (FNRC) and Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) are also partners on the pilot project that is due to start this month. Masdar will supply solar energy to power the pilot tests.

CO2 will be captured from the atmosphere, dissolved it in seawater and then injected into underground peridotite rock formations. This will mineralise the CO2 and ideally make it incapable of slipping back into the atmosphere.

The project partners picked Fujairah as a testbed because it has a lot of peridotite rocks, which naturally react with CO2 to mineralise it. Peridotite is also abundant in certain places across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australasia.

ADNOC plans to mineralise 1 billion mt of CO2 by 2040.  

“Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is vital if we are to halt and ultimately reverse climate change,” said the founder and chief executive of 44.01, Talal Hasan.

44.01’s carbon capture and mineralisation technology earned it the climate version of The Earthshot Prize last year and a grant of £1 million ($1.23 million).

By Debarati Bhattacharjee

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