Canadian Svante and Kiewit ally in pursuit of CCS

Canadian carbon capture and storage (CCS) developer Svante said December 13 it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with engineering firm Kiewit to establish a strategic alliance that would pursue industrial CCS projects under development by clients in Canada and the US.

The KSI Alliance, Svante said, will work as a “highly collaborative, integrated team” to offer clients in the cement, blue hydrogen, refining, petrochemical, steel, ammonia and pulp & paper sectors a “one-stop-shop” for business development and construction services from pre-construction to engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project delivery.

The carbon capture projects will employ Svante’s solid sorbent technology to capture carbon dioxide directly from industrial flue gases and produce pipeline-grade pure CO₂ for safe storage.

The technology has already been deployed at a one mt/day pilot plant in BC, where the captured CO₂ is injected into concrete, and at a 30 mt/day demonstration plant in Saskatchewan. And US major Chevron is developing a 25 mt/day demonstration plant near Bakersfield, California.

“Kiewit is a market leader in North America for CCS deployment, having more than 5,500 mt/day of installed capacity to date with further 60,000 mt/day of FEED studies currently underway,” Svante CEO Claude Letourneau said. “Kiewit and Svante are ready and capable of taking the next phase of plant capacity scale-up on the path to decarbonisation of hard-to-abate industries such as cement and blue hydrogen.”