JX Nippon has announce that the Petra Nova carbon capture facility of the Petra Nova project, owned by Petra Nova Parish Holdings (a subsidiary of JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation) as restarted operations.
The project, which has been shut down since May 2020, restarted operations on September 5, 2023.
The Petra Nova CCUS project, which captures CO2 from the flue gas of a thermal power plant and injects the captured CO2 into an oil field to increase in crude oil production.
The carbon capture facility of this project, is one of the largest carbon capture facilities in the world, can capture greenhouse gas (CO2) approximately 1.4 million metric tons per year.
