The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) got the go-ahead from the Department of Energy on Friday to launch DOE-funded enhanced water recovery demonstration projects. Like enhanced oil recovery, EWR pumps CO2 underground to extract the goal substance, in this case, brine.
The two projects were selected from five brine extraction storage test (BEST) projects awarded in September 2015. “The initial five BEST projects, which were provided an initial $7 million in funding in September, have been working to develop engineering strategies and approaches for managing reservoir pressure and the flow of stored CO2 in saline reservoirs. The two projects selected today will receive a total of $31 million in funding from the Department to implement their field plan to validate their proposed approaches,” according to a DOE release.
The EPRI project will receive $15,483,535 in DOE funding while the EERC project has been awarded $15,680,505.
