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Chevron invests in carbon capture start-up Blue Planet

By Dale Granger | 22/01/2021

Chevron personnel on Barrow Island at the carbon injection facility

22/01/2021 by Dale Granger

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Chevron has announced a Series C investment in San Jose-based Blue Planet Systems Corporation, a start-up that manufactures and develops carbonate aggregates and carbon capture technology intended to reduce the carbon intensity of industrial operations.

The San Ramon headquartered company said: “Chevron Technology Ventures’ ongoing investment in carbon capture and utilization technologies supports Chevron’s focus on a diverse portfolio of lower-carbon solutions.”

In connection with its investment, Chevron and Blue Planet also executed a letter of intent to collaborate on potential pilot projects and commercial development in key geographies, with the goal of jointly advancing lower-carbon opportunities.

Cost and capture

Blue Planet creates carbonate-based building aggregate made from flue gas-captured CO2. Distinct from some other industrial carbon capture and utilization technologies, Blue Planet’s process does not require CO2 purification and enrichment prior to use which can reduce cost and unit energy consumed during capture.

Founded in 2013, Blue Planet’s technology potentially enables permanent capture of CO2 in building materials at scale, converting CO2 to a lower-carbon product for sale in the growing global market of aggregates.

“Carbon capture, utilization, and storage, or CCUS, is viewed to be essential to advancing progress toward the global net-zero ambition of the Paris Agreement”, said Barbara Burger, VP of innovation and president of Technology Ventures at Chevron.

“This investment is made through our Future Energy Fund which focuses on star-tups with lower-carbon technologies that can scale commercially, and we welcome Blue Planet to this portfolio.”

Brent Constantz, founder, CEO, and chief scientist at Blue Planet, said: “The investment may also provide future opportunities to incorporate Blue Planet’s approach into Chevron’s projects”.

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