Denbury Resources has submitted an application to the ND Public Service Commission seeking permission to build a pipeline that will bring carbon dioxide to Bowman County as part of an enhanced oil recover project.
The 12-inch diameter welded steel Denbury Green Pipeline would be just short of 18 miles in length, with about 8.5 miles in Fallon County, Montana, and the remaining 9.2 miles in Slope and Bowman Counties. The pipeline would enter the state nearly due west of Marmarth in southwestern Slope County, and terminate about six miles south of the community in Bowman County.
The CO2 will come from the Exxon Mobil Shute Creek Gas Plant in LaBarge, Wyoming, and the ConocoPhillips Lost Cabin Gas Plant in Lysite, Wyoming, and be transported to Denbury’s Bell Creek EOR Development in Powder River County, Montana.
The new pipeline will connect at a point 6.3 miles southeast of Baker, Montana. Denbury estimates the price tag for the North Dakota portion of the pipeline will be $9.2 million.
The project will provide for tertiary oil recovery from Denbury’s production wells through injection of CO2 into the oil reservoir which will result in increased extraction and utilization of crude oil resources.
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Re-Fracking: Next Big Trend In The Bakken?
From The Williston Herald. This should get one's attention: on average, re-fracking should result in 350,000 bbls of additional crude oil from these old wells. The figure was based on an analysis of 100 or so wells in the Killdeer area.
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Carbon Capture
Project Tundra, from The Bismarck Tribune, September 17, 2019:
- carbon capture
- source of carbon: a coal-fired power plan tin Oliver County
- project is described as "complex"
- cost of project if ever approved: $1 billion
- US DOE: awarded $10 million for a front-end engineering study
- recipient of the $10 million: Fluor
- seismic survey has begun near Center, North Dakota
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