据油气新闻3月18日消息称，西方石油公司周四表示，它同意向飞机制造商Airbus出售可抵消排放的碳信用额，该协议将推进这家美国石油生产商刚刚起步的能源转型业务。

这份为期四年的协议为西方石油公司进行投资决定奠定了基础，该公司将建造世界上最大的发电厂，旨在从空气中吸收二氧化碳并将其埋在地下，以帮助减缓全球变暖。

该协议的价值未被披露。西方石油公司计划周三向投资者汇报其低碳业务的最新情况。

西方石油公司表示，该公司的直接空气捕获(DAC)设施预计将于今年下半年在美国最大的页岩油田所在地得克萨斯州西部开始建设。

据国际能源署称，该工厂的碳去除能力预计将是目前在全球运营的所有19座 DAC 工厂总和的 100 倍。

该项目的潜在成本尚未披露。工程预计将耗时两年左右。

西方石油公司的直接空气捕获设施的目标是每年从大气中去除 100 万吨二氧化碳，相当于近20万辆汽车的排放量。一年前，冰岛的一个能减少 790 辆汽车尾气排放的项目被认为是世界上最大的项目。

西方石油公司表示，Airbus已经预先购买了每年从大气中捕获和永久封存10万吨二氧化碳的计划，为期4年，并可选择在未来获得更多的数量。这笔交易是由西方石油的子公司1PointFive签署的。

曹海斌 摘译自 油气新闻

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.