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Carbon Sequestration
World Projects

A variety of worldwide projects related to carbon dioxide capture and geologic storage are contributing to our understanding of capture technology and geologic storage sites.

CO2 Capture and Geologic Storage Projects, Worldwide


Project Name/ Location

Project Size
(MM tons CO2 /yr)

Year Begun

Project Summary

K12B/ The Netherlands

Initial inj.: 30 kt/yr
2006+: 0.4 MMt/yr
Total: 8 MMt

2004

Enhanced gas recovery demo project.

RECOPOL/ European Union

Designed: 20 t/d
Achieved: 1-1.3 t/d
Total: 3 Mt

2004

Injection into coal seam has been more difficult than expected.
Horizontal wells have been drilled.

Hokkaido/ Japan

Injection rate: 2 t/d
Total injected: 24 t

2004

CO2 - ECBM test project. 
Spring 2005 wells will be refurbished (original cementing not satisfactory) and new more extensive CO2 injection test planned.

CASTOR/ European Union

Rate: 10 kt/yr

2004

Currently conducting pilot-scale tests of post combustion capture and case studies of four potential geologic storage sites.

Quinshi/ China

Total injected: 200 t Duration: 22 d

2005

The next phase of the project will involve a multi well test, the design of which will be complete in 2005.

Otway/ Australia

Rate: 160 t/d
Duration: 2 yrs
Total: 0.1 MMt

Late 2005

Planned pilot-scale project.
Saline formation and depleted gas field.

CO2  SINK/ European Union

Rate: 30 kt/y
Duration: at least 2 yrs

2006

Project to test and evaluate CO2 capture and storage at an existing natural gas storage facility and in a deeper land-based saline formation.

ARC ECBM Recovery Project/ Alberta, Canada

 

 

Pilot-scale project (3 test wells).

Sleipner/ Norway

1.0

1996

CO2 is captured from an off-shore natural gas processing platform and injected into a saline formation.
Project motivated by a net tax on CO2 emissions.

Weyburn / United States and Canada

1.5

2000

CO2 is captured in North Dakota and piped across the US-Canada border to the Weyburn oilfield in Saskatchewan.
Significant modeling and field testing of CO2 monitoring equipment being conducted in parallel to EOR project.

In Salah/ Algeria

1.2

2004

CO2 captured from natural gas processing and reinjected to enhance natural gas recovery.

Snow White (Snohvit)/ Norwegian Barents Sea

0.75

2006

Need to purify natural gas before liquefaction (raw natural gas 5-8% CO2).

CCPC/ Canada

 

2007

Project still in planning stages. 
Leaning toward EOR combined with either post-combustion or oxyfuel.

Gorgon/ Australia

4.0

2009

Need to purify natural gas before liquefaction. 
Raw natural gas 12% CO2.

Alaska gas pipeline project/ Unites States

12

 

Need to purify natural gas to meet pipeline standards (Prudhoe bay raw gas 12% CO2).
CO2 capture qualifies for 15% EOR tax credit.

Stanwell/ Australia

 

 

Part of Australia’s clean coal program. 
No details on the project available. 

Hypogen/ European Union

 

 

Pre-feasibility study complete in January 2005
EU version of FutureGen

Innovation Center Initiative / North Sea  

 

 

Large-scale proposed project to help Great Britain/Europe meet Kyoto limits and also extend the productive life of the North Sea fields. 
CO2 source unspecified.