Carbon capture and storage is great for business ... as long as you don't have to foot the hefty bill. That's the fortunate position of Emirates Aluminium (EMAL), which is working with Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Government's clean energy firm, to engineer a carbon capture system at the gas-fired power plant at its upcoming smelter in Taweelah. Duncan Hedditch, EMAL's chief executive, said the company is "very keen to pursue" carbon capture in its bid to build the cleanest smelter in the world. The firm has left physical room in its design for the capture technology, whose design and engineering would be led by Masdar, he said. But EMAL won't have to pay anything towards the capture plant itself, he indicated. "The final details aren't worked out, but it's not expected that EMAL will contribute capital to that," Mr Hedditch said in a telephone interview. "Effectively from a commercial point of view it would be totally independent of EMAL." EMAL would provide Masdar with a utilities connection and sell it the carbon gas for "a small consideration", Mr Hedditch said. Masdar hopes to build a network of carbon capture projects that would collect emissions from EMAL's smelter, Emirates Steel Industries, and one of the emirate's power stations. The gas would be piped to the Western Region where it would be sold to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company for injection into old oil wells. The scheme would squeeze out more oil, reduce emissions and displace valuable natural gas that is currently in the wells to maintain pressure.