ABU DHABI: Faced with mounting pressure over planet-heating pollution, Gulf Arab energy giants are turning to humble tech start-ups as they search for ways to remove emissions while keeping oil flowing. Oil producers have for years touted capturing carbon before it goes into the atmosphere as a potential g
ABU DHABI: Faced with mounting pressure over planet-heating pollution, Gulf Arab energy giants are turning to humble tech start-ups as they search for ways to remove emissions while keeping oil flowing.
"For the industry and for countries as well to achieve net zero by 2050, I don't see us achieving this without embracing carbon capture," Musabbeh Al Kaabi, ADNOC's executive director of low-carbon solutions, told AFP. There were also firms presenting their plans for direct air capture , a newer technology that extracts CO2 directly from the atmosphere.
"The world has two options: we could leave it to the small players or have the big players accelerating this decarbonisation," Kaabi said.
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