March 17, 2014

CSLF ADDS FIVE CCS PROJECTS TO ITS PORTFOLIO

By ExchangeMonitor

Karen Frantz
GHG Monitor
11/15/13

The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum announced last week that it is adding the Kemper County carbon capture and storage project and four other CCS projects to its research-and-development portfolio, which serves as a basis for global information sharing on CCS technologies. The CSLF said its portfolio, which now numbers approximately 40 projects, represents “some of the most important projects throughout the world covering all aspects of CCS,” and that it “includes pioneering activities to identify potential storage capacities and projects dedicated to matters such as cutting the costs of CO2 capture technology and developing new methods of combustion; identifying storage capacity and widening the understanding of geologic reservoirs; predicting the behavior of stored carbon in various kinds of reservoirs; and developing technologies for successful, reliable and long-term monitoring, measurement and verification of stored carbon.”

The 582 MW Kemper County gasification project, being carried out by Southern Company, is currently undergoing peak construction in eastern Mississippi and is expected to be the first utility-scale power generation facility with CCS. On the heels of the CSLF’s announcement that it was adding Kemper to its portfolio, the project was visited by Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and other government and industry leaders from the U.S., Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom at the conclusion of CSLF’s ministerial meeting in Washington, D.C. “Southern Company is, in many ways, leading all towards a 21st century generation portfolio,” Moniz said.

Along with Kemper, the other projects recently added to the CSLF portfolio include:

  • Uthmaniyah CO2-EOR Demonstration Project in Saudi Arabia. The large-scale project will capture and store approximately 800,000 metric tons of CO2 per year from a natural gas production and processing facility, and will include pipeline transportation of approximately 70 kilometers to the injection site (a small flooded area in the Uthmaniyah Field).  The project duration is expected to be four-to-five years total, starting in 2013/2014;
  • Alberta Carbon Trunk Line Project in Canada. The large-scale fully-integrated project will collect CO2 from two industrial sources (a fertilizer plant and an oil sands upgrading facility) in Canada’s Province of Alberta industrial heartland and transport it via a 240-kilometer pipeline to depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs in central Alberta for utilization and storage in EOR projects. Pipeline right-of-way clearing began in February;
  • The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) Development Phase Project in the United States. The large-scale project is designed to inject 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide during a span of roughly four years. According to the CSLF, the MRCSP “is a multi-year research program led by Battelle to identify, test and further develop the most effective approaches to CO2 utilization and storage in nine states within the Midwest and Northeast. Previous small-scale tests in the region have demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of CO2 storage; however, more remains to be done to prove viability at a commercial scale;” and
  • The Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB) Phase III Anthropogenic Test and Plant Barry Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Project in the United States. The test “is the largest pilot project of a fully-integrated pulverized coal-fired CCS project in the United States to date, pulling together components of capture, transportation, subsurface storage, and monitoring, verification and accounting. As a first-of-its-kind project, this test will be very important for understanding the challenges power plant capture can present to the emerging field of geologic CO2 storage. Project partners include Southern Company, Denbury Resources, and others,” CSLF said.

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