據油氣新聞3月18日消息稱，西方石油公司周四表示，它同意向飛機制造商Airbus出售可抵消排放的碳信用額，該協議將推進這家美國石油生產商剛剛起步的能源轉型業務。

這份為期四年的協議為西方石油公司進行投資決定奠定了基礎，該公司將建造世界上最大的發電廠，旨在從空氣中吸收二氧化碳并將其埋在地下，以幫助減緩全球變暖。

該協議的價值未被披露。西方石油公司計劃周三向投資者匯報其低碳業務的最新情況。

西方石油公司表示，該公司的直接空氣捕獲(DAC)設施預計將于今年下半年在美國最大的頁巖油田所在地得克薩斯州西部開始建設。

據國際能源署稱，該工廠的碳去除能力預計將是目前在全球運營的所有19座 DAC 工廠總和的 100 倍。

該項目的潛在成本尚未披露。工程預計將耗時兩年左右。

西方石油公司的直接空氣捕獲設施的目標是每年從大氣中去除 100 萬噸二氧化碳，相當于近20萬輛汽車的排放量。一年前，冰島的一個能減少 790 輛汽車尾氣排放的項目被認為是世界上最大的項目。

西方石油公司表示，Airbus已經預先購買了每年從大氣中捕獲和永久封存10萬噸二氧化碳的計劃，為期4年，并可選擇在未來獲得更多的數量。這筆交易是由西方石油的子公司1PointFive簽署的。

曹海斌 摘譯自 油氣新聞

原文如下：

Occidental signs four-year deal with jet-maker Airbus for carbon credits

Occidental Petroleum Corp on Thursday said it agreed to sell emissions-offsetting carbon credits to jet-maker Airbus under a deal that advances the U.S. oil producer’s budding energy transition business.

The four-year agreement sets the stage for Occidental to go ahead on an investment decision for what would be the world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air and bury it underground, helping to mitigate global warming.

The value of the agreement was not disclosed. Occidental has scheduled an investor update on its low carbon business for Wednesday.

Construction on Occidental’s direct air capture (DAC) facility is expected to begin in the second half of this year in west Texas, home of the top U.S. shale oil field, the company said.

The plant is expected to have a carbon removal capacity 100 times bigger than all the 19 DAC plants currently operating worldwide combined, according to the International Energy Agency.

The potential cost of the project has not been disclosed. Construction was expected to take around two years.

Occidental’s direct air capture facility has a goal of removing one million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere per year, equivalent to emissions from almost 200,000 cars. A project in Iceland able to remove emissions from 790 cars here was considered the world’s largest one year ago.

Airbus has pre-purchased the capture and permanent sequestration of 100,000 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere each year for four years, with an option to secure more volume in the future, Occidental said. The deal was signed by Occidental subsidiary 1PointFive.