Shell and National Grid join UK consortium to build CCS plant

Royal Dutch Shell and National Grid have announced that they will join ScottishPower's carbon capture and storage (CCS) consortium which is in the process of submitting a bid to build the first CCS plant in the UK.

The consortium is one of three groups of bidders for government funding. It aims to build the first commercial-scale system to demonstrate CCS techniques that is hoped will help Britain lead the way in tackling climate change.

Shell is the first major oil company to get involved in CCS in the UK. "Shell's experience of working offshore in the North Sea is clearly critical - not only in terms of the potential for CO2 storage in depleted oil and gas reservoirs, but because transport and storage of

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