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Aker Carbon Capture — Investor Presentation 2021
Feb 12, 2021
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Investor Presentation
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Q4 2020
Fornebu, February 12, 2021 Valborg Lundegaard, CEO
Agenda
Aker Carbon Capture in brief
Highlights
Operations and business development
Outlook
Aker Carbon Capture in brief
Pure play carbon capture company delivering ready-to-use capture plants
Best-in-class HSE friendly solvent and other patented plant technologies for better all-round plant performance
Validated and certified market-leading proprietary technology with more than 50,000 operating hours
Highlights
EPC contract for Brevik CCS project secured, funding for Longship approved
MoUs secured with strategic partners to strengthen position in key segments
Customer partnerships developing favourably, new agreements secured
CO2 prices reach record high
- Carbon prices hit record high €38.08/tonne on Feb 4
- Price of carbon up ~60% since November
- Norway introduces climate action plan
- CO2 tax to rise from NOK 590 today towards NOK 2,000 per tonnes in 2030
- UK launches "green industrial revolution"
- Aims to capture 10m tonnes per year by 2030
- Bank of England warns CO2 prices could treble in coming years
Storage projects underway
● Northern Lights – Norway
- Confirmed
- Aker Carbon Capture to support Aker Solutions with CO2 expertise
- Porthos Netherlands
- EU proposes €102 million funding
- Greensands Denmark
- Certified by DNV for CO2 injection and storage
- Selected other storage projects
- Ravenna, Italy
- Net Zero Teesside, UK
- Acorn, UK
- HyNet North West, UK
- Zero Carbon Humber, UK
Our carbon capture product offering
Just Catch™
40,000 & 100,000 tonnes/year Compact, modularized and cost efficient
Unique HSE profile – a key differentiator
High CO2 capture rate (~90%) and superior energy optimization
A commercial differentiator
- Minimum liquid waste
- Minimum emission
- Non-toxic
- Efficient reclamation (HSS removal)
- Biodegradable
- Minimum corrosion
Regular amine solvent: High solvent degradation (discoloring) in operation on coal flue gas
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ACC S26 solvent: no discoloration
Technology development aimed at improving energy efficiency
- Strategic technology-cooperation agreement with MAN Energy Solutions to develop energyefficient compression solutions for carbon capture and storage applications with heat recovery
- One of Europe's leading suppliers of compressors
- Heat transfer from compression systems key for overall power-consumption of CCS plant
- Eligible for Big Catch projects, including Brevik CCS
CCS economics turning positive
Operations and business developments
Key markets and industries
Main activity in Northern Europe
- Scandinavia
- Benelux
- UK
- …leading the way
Prioritized industries
- Cement
- Bio/waste-to-energy
- Blue hydrogen
- Gas-to-power
Cement industry
Brevik CCS
- Project to deliver the world's first CCS plant at a cement facility is now underway
- Scope: EPC delivery of a complete CO2 capture plant in Brevik, Norway for Norcem HeidelbergCement
- Experienced project execution team established
- Subcontract to Aker Solutions for engineering, procurement and management assistance
- 400,000 t/pa capture plant
- Contract value of ~NOK 1.7 billion
Bio/Waste to energy
Hitachi Zosen Inova
- MoU to accelerate carbon capture solutions in the waste to energy industry in Europe
- Combining Aker Carbon Capture's HSE-friendly CCS technology with HZI's proven capabilities as a turnkey supplier of waste to energy plants
Forus Energi & Lyse
● MoU to explore development of a full-scale CCS facility in Stavanger/Sandnes region in southwestern Norway
Twence
● EPC secured with customer, project awaiting public funding
Vattenfall
● MoU to support Vattenfall´s ambitions to achieve negative emissions in waste and bio-CCS plants
February 11, 2021 Slide 14 * Aker Carbon Capture's technology has been verified for application to the Bio/waste to Energy industry through extensive testing with the Mobile Test Unit at Fortum's plant in Oslo
Blue hydrogen
Preem
- Test Campaign with Mobile Test Unit Completed
- One year campaign, 3,000+ operating hours
- Completed study for application of industrial scale CCS at Hydrogen Production Unit
Haldor Topsoe
- MoU with intention to offer a complete solution for low-carbon hydrogen production
- Combining Haldor Topsoe's proven hydrogen process and Aker Carbon Capture's CCS technology for low-emission, cost-effective production of 'blue' hydrogen – a clean energy carrier with a wide array of applications in industry and as a fuel
Gas to power
Gas power testing in Norway 2008-2010 Current market focus: UK
"Our ambition is to capture 10m/t of carbon dioxide a year by 2030, the equivalent of 4 million cars' worth of annual emissions. We will invest up to £1 billion to support the establishment of CCUS in 4 industrial clusters."
Boris Johnson, UK PM – November 2020
Project opportunities include:
- Net Zero Teesside
- SSE Thermal Keadby 3
- Acorn
Summary and outlook
CCUS investments rising
- Global spending on CCS projects Annual investment in CCUS set to soar 38 percent till 2025 (Source: Rystad Energy)
- Total investments could reach \$9bn in 2025
- 80-90% of investments in Europe and North America
Several large companies launching Net Zero/CCUS investment plans
- Energy companies
- Industrial and process industry
- IT & Technology
Market outlook
Number of prospects and opportunities increasing
- About 500 industrial plants with emissions of more than 100,000 tonnes per year in target markets
- 8 ongoing project studies for different customers
- 14 projects in the EU Innovation fund funnel
- Feedback on the funding expected first half of 2021
- Aker Carbon Capture involved in several of these projects
10 in 25
Secure contracts to capture 10 million tonnes per annum CO2 by 2025
Outlook and priorities
Successfully deliver Brevik CCS project
Position for strategic markets through partnerships
Realize programs to drive down carbon capture costs
Continue developing opportunities in prioritized markets
Q&A
Copyright and disclaimer
Copyright
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Disclaimer
This presentation includes and is based, inter alia, on forward-looking information and statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. These statements and this presentation are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about global economic conditions, the economic conditions of the regions and industries that are major markets for Aker Carbon Capture Norway AS and Aker Carbon Capture Norway AS's (including subsidiaries and affiliates) lines of business. These expectations, estimates and projections are generally identifiable by statements containing words such as "expects", "believes", "estimates" or similar expressions. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expectations include, among others, economic and market conditions in the geographic areas and industries that are or will be major markets for Aker Carbon Capture Norway AS's businesses, market acceptance of new products and services, changes in governmental regulations, interest rates, fluctuations in currency exchange rates and such other factors as may be discussed from time to time in the presentation. Although Aker Carbon Capture Norway AS believes that its expectations and the presentation are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that those expectations will be achieved or that the actual results will be as set out in the presentation. Aker Carbon Capture Norway AS is making no representation or warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the presentation, and neither Aker Carbon Capture Norway AS nor any of its directors, officers or employees will have any liability to you or any other persons resulting from your use.
Appendices
P&L ● Balance sheet ● Cash flow
Condensed consolidated income statement
| Jul 8 - | Full year | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| thousand Amounts in NOK |
Sep 30, 2020 | Q4 2020 | 2020 |
| Revenues | 5 611 | 10 191 | 15 802 |
| Cost of goods sold | (4 680) | (5 275) | (9 955) |
| Salary and other personnel costs | (5 187) | (15 960) | (21 147) |
| Other operating expenses | (8 310) | (19 091) | (27 400) |
| Depreciation | (1 881) | (1 881) | |
| Operating profit | (12 566) | (32 015) | (44 581) |
| Financial income | 71 | 391 | 462 |
| Financial expenses | - | (341) | (341) |
| Net financial items | 7 1 |
5 0 |
121 |
| Earnings before tax | (12 495) | (31 965) | (44 460) |
| Income tax benefit (expense) | - | - | - |
| Net profit | (12 495) | (31 965) | (44 460) |
| Earnings (loss) per share in NOK (basic and diluted) | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.09 |
Condensed consolidated balance sheet
| in thousand Amounts NOK |
Sep 30, 2020 | Dec 31, 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assets | |||
| Non-current assets | |||
| Intangible assets | 3 004 | 3 792 | |
| Right-of-use assets | - | 13 184 | |
| Fixed assets | 2 279 | 2 610 | |
| Total non-current assets | 5 283 | 19 586 | |
| Current assets | |||
| Trade and other receivables | 13 378 | 7 196 | |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 492 571 | 457 699 | |
| Total current assets | 505 949 | 464 896 | |
| Total assets | 511 232 | 484 481 |
| thousand Amounts in NOK |
Sep 30, 2020 | Dec 31, 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity and liabilities | |||
| Equity | |||
| Share capital | 566 061 | 566 060 | |
| Other paid-in capital | (81 847) | (114 200) | |
| Total equity | 484 214 | 451 860 | |
| Non-current liabilities | |||
| Pension liabilities | - | 2 849 | |
| Non-current lease liabilities | - | 9 272 | |
| Total non-current liabilities | - | 12 121 | |
| Current liabilities | |||
| Trade and other payables | 27 018 | 15 592 | |
| Current lease liabilities | - | 4 908 | |
| Total current liabilities | 27 018 | 20 500 | |
| Total equity and liabilities | 511 232 | 484 481 |
Condensed consolidated cash flow statement
| Jul 8 - | Full year | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| in thousand Amounts NOK |
Sep 30, 2020 | Q4 2020 | 2020 |
| Profit before tax | (12 495) | (31 965) | (44 460) - |
| Adjustment for: |
- | ||
| Amortisation and depreciation | - | 1 881 | 1 881 |
| Changes in net current operating assets | 6 465 | 10 263 | 16 728 |
| Accrued interest and foreign exchange | - | 308 | 308 |
| Cash flow from operating activities | (6 030) | (19 515) | (25 545) |
| Acquisition of property, plant and equipment | (45) | (331) | (376) |
| Payments for capitalized development | (1 354) | (788) | (2 142) |
| Cash flow from investing activities | (1 399) | (1 119) | (2 518) |
| Payment of finance lease liabilities | - | (1 192) | (1 192) |
| Share issue, net of transaction costs | 500 000 | (12 489) | 487 511 |
| Net purchase of treasury shares | - | (558) | (558) |
| Cash flow from financing activities | 500 000 | (14 238) | 485 762 |
| Net cash flow | 492 571 | (34 872) | 457 699 |
| Cash and cash equivalent at the beginning of the period | - | 492 571 | - |
| cash and cash equivalent at the end of the period | 492 571 | 457 699 | 457 699 |