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

Denbury Onshore Reports a Nice Well -- Sand Creek 21-10SH -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

19889, 1,678, Denbury Onshore, Sand Creek 21-10SH, Sand Creek, Bakken

For all wells coming off confidential list, click here. 

Three (3) New Permits -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, July 21, 2011 --

Operators: Newfield (2), and Marathon

Fields: East Fork and Reunion Bay.

Both Newfield wells will be on the same pad.

In addition, eleven (11) wells were released from confidential status. Of the eleven, four reported IPs. The rest are waiting to be completed, no doubt.

Of note:

• 19077, 717, Hess, EN-Trinity-154-93-2833H-2, Bakken, Mountrail
• 19225, 667, Hess, EN-Wefald-156-94-1324H-1, Bakken, Mountrail
• 20200, 688, CLR, Hawkinson 3-27H, Bakken, Dunn

Absolutely Nothing To Do With The Bakken -- ATT vs Verizon

As an avid fan of Apple and its products (I don't own any shares in AAPL), it has been entertaining to watch the discussions among customers of ATT and Verizon.

For those who have followed the story, one can recall all the stories about all the ATT iPhone users who could not wait for Verizon to get the iPhone. So many ATT users were upset with dropped calls and couldn't wait to get a Verizon iPhone.

Well, now Verizon has the iPhone, and the results are in. They left in droves. Not.

Link here.

Verizon Communications may have the iPhone, but the blockbuster smartphone has yet to pay off in its battle against AT&T Inc.

In the second quarter, Verizon Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. mobile service, signed up 1.3 million fewer iPhone customers than AT&T, dashing high hopes of investors who sent its shares down almost 3 percent.

On top of this, Verizon Wireless customers spent less per month than expected as the company changed its data service price plans, further disappointing Wall Street on Friday.

While Verizon Wireless added three times more net subscribers in the quarter than AT&T, it only activated 2.3 million Apple Inc iPhones compared with 3.6 million activations at AT&T.

"AT&T has done a much better job of hanging on to iPhone customers than anybody expected," said Credit Suisse analyst Jonathan Chaplin.

Oh, I mentioned that I don't own any AAPL shares. Members in my family do own some shares in ATT, but none in Verizon, that I am aware of, except through mutual funds, etc. 

Waste Management Adds 1000th Natural Gas Truck To Its Fleet -- Not a Bakken Story

Link here.

Waste Management today added a 1000th natural gas truck to its fleet, making it the largest owner and operator of clean-running, heavy duty refuse trucks in North America.

At a ceremony at its Carson, Calif., property, the company commemorated the delivery of its 1000th natural gas vehicle with Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster starting up the new recycling truck that will serve his city's residents.