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Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Consultant - January 2024
Remote, RemoteFor one of our clients in the energy industry we’re looking for a freelance Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Consultant:
Project description: The client’s innovation function is coordinating the CO2 initiatives of the entire client group. These initiatives pursue the goal to support the climate neutrality targets of the EU and its member states by contributing to the set-up of the overall ecosystem to capture, transport, store and utilize hard-to-abate CO2 emissions. The focus lies here in the midstream business and the development of infrastructure projects.
Task description:
CO2 intermediary storage:
Project start: January 2024
Project location: Remote
Project duration: 6+ months
Project capacity: 24 hrs./week
Project description: The client’s innovation function is coordinating the CO2 initiatives of the entire client group. These initiatives pursue the goal to support the climate neutrality targets of the EU and its member states by contributing to the set-up of the overall ecosystem to capture, transport, store and utilize hard-to-abate CO2 emissions. The focus lies here in the midstream business and the development of infrastructure projects.
Task description:
CO2 intermediary storage:
- Coordination of the project development for the project “CO2 interim Storage”. This includes the development of a financial business case that assesses the different business models for the operation of a cavern storage with the goal to temporarily store CO2. Develop the business case based on own experience / expertise and the client standards based on the information received from the client Energy Storage
- Based on the assessment, advise the project team on the best operative regime of a CO2 cavern storage.
- Advise the project team on potential other markets besides the German market based on an independently conducted market analysis considering regulatory developments, market actors and ecosystem fit.
- Advise the client on potential partner companies based on own expertise to realize the successful roll-out of a CO2 intermediary storage
- Develop possibilities for marketing fossil and biogenic CO2 sources from industrial customers with first carbon capture systems based on own expertise and industry best practices.
- Provide technical advice for the client’s Net Zero team and innovation, based on analysis of different industries with hard-to abate emissions to identify opportunities for business models around CO2 sources from carbon capture plants. These can be customers in the immediate vicinity for the use of the CO2 or the geological storage of the CO2.
- Coordinate an analysis for potential business models for the client around BECCS.
- Advise the client on potential roles within the value chain based on the conducted analysis and recommend partner companies to position the client in this future value chain.
- Provide technical advice to the project team regarding the evaluation of business models for various client projects in the area of carbon management (CO2 trading, temporary CO2 storage, logistics)
- The consultation will take place in the form of online meetings and Emails.
- Documentation of all tasks in a mutual MS Teams channel in the general MS Office programs (PPT, XLS, DOC.)
- Presentation of all results to relevant client employees for approval in internal project meetings in PPT format.
Project start: January 2024
Project location: Remote
Project duration: 6+ months
Project capacity: 24 hrs./week