Emirates Steel, the only integrated steel plant in the UAE owned by Senaat, organised a tour of its plants in Mussaffah, Abu Dhabi, for the participants of the 50th annual conference of World Steel Association (worldsteel).

The worldsteel conference, which was held for the first time in Dubai, concluded its activities on October 12.

Emirates Steel’s plant tour began with a safety briefing and a presentation from the Health and Safety Team including a short video, followed by plant visit where participants followed safe walkways supervised by the tour guide and the company’s officials.

The tour schedule also included a visit to Masdar facilities, where participants were updated on the first strategic joint CO2 capture, usage and storage project in the Middle East, between Emirates Steel, Masdar and Adnoc.

Attendees were briefed on the core idea of the project, that focuses on utilising the CO2 generated by Emirates Steel plants to feed the project when it goes operational, including a detailed presentation on its three elements of the industrial capture of CO2 from Emirates Steel’s facilities; compression, dehydration and transportation of the CO2 from the Masdar carbon capture facility (CCF) to an ADNOC onshore oil field, and finally usage of injected CO2 for enhanced oil recovery.

Specialists demonstrated benefits of the project that will liberate precious natural methane gas traditionally used to pressurize oil wells and aid oil recovery to instead be used for traditional power generation and water desalination, in addition to its massive contribution to Emirates Steel’s carbon footprint with plans to sequester up to 730,000 tons of CO2 annually, which is equivalent to planting around 100,000 trees.

The site tour was attended by representatives of global steel companies and associations from around the world participants of the worldsteel 50th Annual Conference, officials of Emirates Steel and Masdar.-TradeArabia News Service