Greece’s Vardinoyiannis Group-backed Motor Oil and the European Commission have signed the EU Innovation Fund Grant Agreement of €127m ($138m), for a pioneering Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) project regarding the construction and operation of a Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCS) and e-methanol production system at Motor Oil’s Agioi Theodoroi Refinery.

The IRIS project is among the 41 projects selected, out of the 239 proposals submitted, under the second round of the EU Innovation Fund’s ‘large-scale’ calls for proposals, and just the third in Europe involving a Steam Methane Reformer.

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The IRIS project will integrate several innovative industrial processes, on a scale that has never been implemented before in an independent refinery.