Shell announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) for Polaris, a carbon capture project at Shell Energy and Chemicals Park, Scotford in Alberta, Canada.
Shell Canada Products, a subsidiary of Shell, today announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) for Polaris, a carbon capture project in Alberta, Canada.
Polaris is designed to capture approximately 650,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year from Shell’s Scotford refinery and chemical complex.
In addition to Polaris, Shell announced today that FID will continue the Atlas Carbon Storage Hub in partnership with ATCO EnPower. The first phase of Atlas will provide permanent underground storage for CO₂ captured by the Polaris project.
“Carbon capture and storage is a key technology to achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement,” said Huibert Vigeveno, Head of Energy, Renewables and Downstream Solutions at Shell. “The Polaris and Atlas projects are important steps in reducing emissions from our own operations.”
Polaris and Atlas will build on the success of Quest’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility in Scotford, which has captured and safely stored more than nine million tonnes of CO₂ since 2015 that would otherwise have been released to the atmosphere.
Both projects are expected to begin operations in late 2028.
