据彭博社4月16日消息，荷兰皇家壳牌公司(Royal Dutch Shell Plc)正在加入一个项目，该项目可能会成为英国第一个大规模的碳捕集和氢中心之一。这家石油巨头正重新聚焦于清洁能源，并缩减其传统业务。

壳牌将与英国最大的独立油气生产商Harbour Energy Plc以及该项目的开发商Storegga Geotechnologies Ltd合作。后者的一个部门周五表示，这两家公司将成为Acorn合资企业的平等合作伙伴，但没有透露它们的潜在投资。

过去一年，大型石油公司宣布了一系列低碳项目，上述交易是其中最新的一笔。这家英荷巨头计划到2035年每年额外获得2500万吨的碳捕获和储存能力，目前正在澳大利亚和挪威开发大型项目，加拿大的一个设施已经每年捕获100万吨碳。

据Storegga说，Acorn正在成为英国第一家成本低、规模大的CCS公司。预计到2030年，它将每年储存至少500万吨二氧化碳，这是英国政府设定目标的一半。

Acorn CCS位于苏格兰东北部，根据项目网站的介绍，Acorn CCS可以重新利用现有的天然气管道来吸收二氧化碳，第一阶段将在2020年代中期投入使用。Acorn氢气厂可能在2025年上线。

道达尔SE曾在2018年宣布对该项目感兴趣，但本周早些时候，Acorn表示，作为 "投资组合管理战略的一部分"，这家法国大公司已经决定退出。

尹路 编译自 彭博社

原文如下：

Shell joins key large-scale carbon capture project in the UK

Royal Dutch Shell Plc is joining a project to build what could be one of the UK’s first large-scale carbon capture and hydrogen hubs as the oil major refocuses toward cleaner energy and slims down its traditional business.

Shell will team up with the UK’s biggest independent oil and gas producer Harbour Energy Plc, and the project’s developer Storegga Geotechnologies Ltd, a unit of the latter said Friday. The companies will be equal partners in the Acorn venture, it said, without disclosing potential investments from them.

The deal is the latest in a string of low-carbon ventures announced by Big Oil over the past year. The Anglo-Dutch major, which seeks to have access to an additional 25 million tons a year of carbon capture and storage capacity by 2035, is developing large-scale projects in Australia and Norway, and a facility in Canada already capturing 1 million tons annually.

Acorn is on course to be the UK’s first, cost-efficient and scalable CCS, according to Storegga. It is expected to be storing at least 5 million tons a year of carbon dioxide by 2030, half the emissions set out in the UK government’s targets.

Based in North East Scotland, Acorn CCS can re-purpose existing natural gas pipelines to take CO2, with the first phase operational by the mid 2020s, according to the project’s website. The Acorn hydrogen plant could be online in 2025.

Total SE had announced interest in the project in 2018, but earlier this week Acorn said the French major had decided to step down “as part of its portfolio management strategy.”