Business Reporter
SHELL organised its first research and technology lecture on the Texas A & M University Qatar campus recently.
Professor Dr Peter A Kukla, director Geological Institute, RWTH Aachen University, German, gave a lecture on “subsurface storage of carbon dioxide, a major integrated research focus at the university”.
Shell in a release here yesterday said the reduction of carbon dioxide emission as a result of human activities has become a topic of environmental and economic interest over the last few years. In several countries, political measures have been taken to allow trading of carbon dioxide emission certificates with a tendency of reducing the number of emission certificates over a period of time.
“Carbon dioxide studies at RWTH are aimed at a better general risk assessment by improving our understanding of the geological controls and the physico-chemical and transport properties of sedimentary rocks including numerical and analogue modelling and calibration studies. This integrates well with other major themes at RWTH geosciences departments such as worldwide seal integrity studies and subsurface gas storage research.
In February last year Shell signed the commercial agreement for a 10-year lease in Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) and announced the technology programme it plans to implement as anchor tenant of this facility. Shell will bring a world scale technology programme to Doha and plans to spend up to $100mn over the 10-year period on R&D and training.
Shell’s facility in QSTP will be part of the company’s global research and technology organisation and will initially focus on exploration and production and gas to liquids technologies as well as on related training programmes. |
