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Jack Cavanaugh

@jack-cavanaugh.bsky.social

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Carbon upper middle management Director, Carbon Management Program at Center on Global Energy Policy + non-resident fellow FAI

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Jack Cavanaugh @jack-cavanaugh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This graph from Shells latest decarbonization report is sticking with me Even in the most ambitious scenario oil demand is 30 million barrels a day largely driven by industrial processes We either need lots of CCS (short to medium term) or even more CDR (long term)

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Jack Cavanaugh @jack-cavanaugh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

In part two Ketan claims "Gorgon is the biggest and ‘best’ CCS project in the world" I do not know anyone who makes this claim, but I understand the editorial decision to paint it like that. He is again correct that most capture carbon has been used for enhacned oil recovery (EOR) but again...

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Jack Cavanaugh @jack-cavanaugh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

carbon removal! Another technology that has drawn Ketan's critical eye. Again here Ketan breaks out the failure rate by use case, which is a total fair point to make, but again no discussion on why they have failed.

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Jack Cavanaugh @jack-cavanaugh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

First Ketan notes that CCS has failed to deploy at scales in projections. This is absolutely true. But there is no discussion of why we have not seen more deployments, which is a very important question. The reason is because we don't have adequate, long-term policy support for CCS.

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