GHG Monitor
6/27/2014
More than one million metric tons of carbon dioxide has officially been captured at the hydrogen-production facility in Port Arthur, Texas, the Department of Energy announced this week. The plant in Port Arthur, run in partnership with Air Products and Chemicals Inc. uses vacuum swing adsorption to capture more than 90 percent of CO2 from two commercial-scale steam methane reformers. “Next generation carbon capture technologies like those deployed at the Air Products facility are a crucial part of the President’s all-of-the-above energy approach, helping to ensure that we are powering our industries as efficiently, sustainably and cleanly as possible using all of America’s abundant energy resources,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Chris Smith in a release issued by the DOE this week. The project has been operating at full scale since May 2013.
CO2 captured at the plant is being used in enhanced oil recovery efforts at West Hasting Field in southeast Texas. The depleted field could hold between 60 and 90 million barrels of oil which would be unrecoverable without the use of EOR practices according to the DOE release.
