Where CO2 Comes From For EOR -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Someone asked me where CO2 for enhanced oil recovery comes from.

It comes from multiple sources.

Here is one source (this has to be one of the cleverest ways to produce/capture CO2 that I have seen.

A big thank you to "Don" for alerting me to this article. (The really, really good posts on this blog usually are first sent to me by "Don" by the way. The boring, routine stuff is mine alone.)


Link here.

The Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP) is a “NowGen” Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) facility that will incorporate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in a first-of-its-kind commercial clean coal power plant (CCCPP).

TCEP will be a 400MW power/poly-gen project that will also produce urea for the U.S. fertilizer market and capture 90 percent of its carbon dioxide (CO2) – approximately 3 million tons per year – which will be used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the West Texas Permian Basin. TCEP is being developed by Seattle-based Summit Power Group, which in June 2010 launched a Front End Engineering Design FEED) Study in conjunction with Siemens, Fluor Corporation and Selas Fluid Processing Corporation, a Linde Group subsidiary.

TCEP received a $450MM award in 2010 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). TCEP received its final air quality permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on December 28, 2010. The project will be located in Penwell, Texas, 15 miles west of Odessa; construction is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Some comments and data points:

• This story will end up on the top ten list for stories with most acronyms/abbreviations.
• I was hoping for a few more acronyms/abbreviations.
• If you want to see more acronyms, see the sister article in which TCEP says it will sell CO2 to Whiting.
  
• CCCPP should not be confused with the CCCP, an old, failed, state-controlled economy (OFSCE) that appears to be the model for the future USA (TFUSA).
• Somewhere in that list of partners, one would expect to see GE.
• I like the word "final" in the last paragraph ("received its final air quality permit) suggesting that this is the green light for environmentalists to take this clever initiative to court to stop it. Penwell, Texas, is the home of an endangered three-legged, one-blind-eyed, lizard, that fills in for the Gecko for stunts.
• San Antonio, Texas, the byline for this story, is where I call home. 

Anyone Goin' To San Antone?/Texas Tornadoes