Total, IFPEN strengthen CCUS research

July 9, 2019
Total SA and IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) will collaborate on development of technologies for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS).

Total SA and IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) will collaborate on development of technologies for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS).

Under a new 5-year, €40-million strategic research and development partnership, they’ll endow a chair at the IFP School on CCUS and strengthen cooperative research on the subject.

“The research will focus on fields related to new materials, process scale-up, underground carbon storage in deep saline aquifers, technical and economic feasibility studies, and the quantification of environmental benefits for the entire CCUS chain,” Total said in a press release.