California Resources Corporation has begun construction on its groundbreaking Carbon TerraVault project in Kern County, marking the state’s first major carbon capture and storage initiative designed to help California achieve its climate neutrality goals.
The project aims to capture carbon dioxide emissions from power producers and other industries, then safely inject the CO2 underground into former oil reservoirs. This approach allows companies to continue operations while significantly reducing their environmental impact.
“Cement and power producers that have emissions into the air, CRC will come install carbon capture facilities to take the CO2, inject it safely downhole, and then that allows those companies to thrive and stay in business, preserving jobs in the state, making sure that jobs stay in Kern County and they don’t get exported to other countries,” Francisco Leon, President and CEO of California Resources Corporation said…