Houston, TX, August 22, 2024 – Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), through its subsidiary Chevron Australia New Ventures Pty Ltd (Chevron), has been awarded a greenhouse gas (GHG) assessment permit offshore Western Australia. The permit award provides further opportunity for Chevron to deliver on its strategy of safely delivering lower carbon energy to a growing world.
The G-18-AP permit is offshore from Onslow, Western Australia and covers an area of approximately 8,467 km2 with water depths of 50-1100m. The permit area will be evaluated as part of a hub for storing third party emissions, including those from Chevron's operated LNG assets.
The permit involves a joint venture with Chevron as operator, and Woodside Energy Ltd. Chevron will hold a 70% participating interest in the permit, and Woodside will hold a 30% participating interest. Chevron has agreed to farm down five percent of its equity in the permit to GS Caltex (GSC) of Korea. GSC's entry into the permit is conditional on regulatory approvals and other matters.
"Chevron, along with our joint venture participants, have a unique set of assets, capabilities and customer relationships to support the further assessment, development and deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Australia," said Chris Powers, vice president of CCUS & Emerging for Chevron New Energies.
"Together with the Chevron-operated Gorgon CCS project, one of the world's largest integrated facilities, coupled with our existing GHG assessment permits, this new award has potential to expand Chevron's portfolio of CCS assets in Australia," he said.
Mark Hatfield, managing director, Chevron Australia said: "These opportunities have the potential to help us lower the carbon intensity of our own operations as well as provide opportunities to help our customers reduce or offset emissions from their activities."
This block award adds to Chevron's non-operated interests in G-9-AP, G-10-AP and G-11-AP as well as operating Gorgon CCS which has now captured and stored 10 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent.
According to the International Energy Agency, reaching global net zero will be virtually impossible without CCUS.1
德克薩斯州休斯頓，2024年8月22日——雪佛龍公司（紐約證券交易所代碼：CVX）通過其子公司雪佛龍澳大利亞新風險投資有限公司（雪佛龍）獲得了西澳大利亞近海溫室氣體（GHG）評估許可。該許可證爲雪佛龍提供了進一步的機會，使雪佛龍能夠實現其向不斷增長的世界安全地提供低碳能源的戰略。
G-18-AP 許可證位於西澳大利亞州昂斯洛近海，佔地面積約 8,467 平方公里，水深爲 5000-110000萬。許可證區域將作爲儲存第三方排放的樞紐的一部分進行評估，包括來自雪佛龍運營的液化天然氣資產的排放。
該許可證涉及由雪佛龍作爲運營商的合資企業，伍德賽德能源有限公司。雪佛龍將持有該許可證70％的參與權益，伍德賽德將持有30％的參與權益。雪佛龍已同意向韓國GS Caltex（GSC）出售其許可證中5％的股權。GSC獲得許可證的條件是監管部門的批准和其他事項。
雪佛龍新能源CCUS與Emerging副總裁克里斯·鮑爾斯表示：「雪佛龍以及我們的合資企業參與者擁有一套獨特的資產、能力和客戶關係，可以支持澳大利亞碳捕集與封存（CCS）的進一步評估、開發和部署。」
他說：「加上雪佛龍運營的全球最大的綜合設施之一Gorgon CCS項目，再加上我們現有的溫室氣體評估許可證，這一新獎項有可能擴大雪佛龍在澳大利亞的CCS資產組合。」
雪佛龍澳大利亞董事總經理馬克·哈特菲爾德表示：「這些機會有可能幫助我們降低自身業務的碳強度，併爲幫助客戶減少或抵消其活動排放提供機會。」
這項集體獎勵增加了雪佛龍在 G-9-AP、G-10-AP 和 G-11-AP 以及運營的戈爾貢碳捕獲和儲存了1000萬噸二氧化碳當量的非運營權益。
根據國際能源署的說法，如果沒有CCUS的話，實現全球淨零幾乎是不可能的。
