New projects to proceed At the end of June, Shell announced it will proceed with the Polaris carbon capture project at its Scotford refinery and chemicals complex near Edmon- ton, and the nearby Atlas storage hub in partnership with ATCO EnPower. Both developments build on Shell’s experience at the Quest CCS project, also located at the Scotford complex, Shell Canada country chair Susannah Pierce told a press conference in July. Since 2015, Quest has stored about one million tonnes of CO2 per year, or a total of about 7.7 million tonnes. Starting near the end of 2028, Polaris is expected to capture up to 650,000 tonnes of C02 per year, transported to the Atlas storage hub by a 22-kilome - ter pipeline. Future phases at Atlas are expected to add capture operations at additional industrial facilities, helping build out Alberta’s strategy to develop multiple CCS hubs in the province.
“We can be one of the first movers to attract those other emitters to be part of our agreement to sequester their emissions,” Pierce said. “For us, we see it as a competitive ad- vantage.” Entropy Inc., a subsidiary of Advan- tage Energy, announced at the begin- ning of July it will proceed with its Gla- cier Phase 2 project, which is expected onstream in mid-2026 and will capture 160,000 tonnes of emissions per year from the Glacier gas plant near Grande Prairie. This builds on the company’s expe- rience with the first phase of CCS at Glacier (47,000 tonnes per year), which achieved “first carbon” injected deep underground in August 2022. “This reduces the CO2 that would oth - erwise flow into the natural gas pipeline distribution system thereby reducing ulti- mate emissions at the burner tip,” Entro- py vice-president of policy and carbon markets told CEC.
“This reduces the CO2 that would otherwise flow into the natural gas pipeline distribution system thereby reducing ultimate emissions at the burner tip,”
“We can be one of the first movers to attract those other emitters to be part of our agreement to sequester their emissions,”
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