The Chevron development off the Pilbara coast was approved on the condition the company store about 4m tonnes of CO2 a year
Last year’s drop in CO2 storage coincided with a big jump in onsite emissions from the Gorgon LNG operation, from 5.5m tonnes to 8.3m tonnes.government data
A company spokesperson acknowledged the decline in emissions storage, and said it was working on a project to improve a pressure management system that was preventing more CO2 being injected under the island. They said they expected this would “enable carbon dioxide storage rates to increase over time”.
Kim Garratt, an investigator with the Australian Conservation Foundation, said CCS developments were “being slapped on to otherwise unacceptable projects to make them seem like reasonable options”.
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