Sentences with phrase «enhanced oil recovery project»

Capture began at a series of natural gas processing plants in Val Verde, Texas in the early 1970s, with the carbon dioxide going to enhanced oil recovery projects by pipeline.

But the paper's author, Graham Thomson, a journalist at The Edmonton Journal, argues that there's a unproven leap between enhanced oil recovery projects and long - term, large - scale carbon capture and storage.

Not exact matches

The Company is not focused on acquisitions of properties that include Enhanced Oil Recovery («EOR») projects or properties that are located in the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Coast, or International plays.

What differentiates Pulse from its peers is the massive upside from its miscible flood Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) project of its two Nisku Pinnacle Reefs at Bigoray (100 % W.I.).

In fact, many of the largest CCS projects in the world are connected to enhanced oil recovery operations.

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

Projects formerly received $ 10 for each ton of carbon captured and used for enhanced oil recovery and $ 20 for each ton captured and put «in secure geological storage» underground.

Genome Alberta announced C$ 25.2 million (US$ 22.2 million) in public / private funding over four years for two new genomic research projects, one targeted at enhanced recovery of fossil hydrocarbon resources from oil sands and coal beds through biological processes, the other focused on discovering plant genes that can be sequenced and used... Read more →

At present, the 45Q provision awards $ 10 per metric ton of stored industrial CO ₂ used in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects, and $ 20 per metric ton for CO ₂ stored in underground reservoirs.

Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a competitive grant program for oil and gas producers to implement projects to inject carbon dioxide to enhance recovery of oil or natural gas while increasing carbon dioxide sequestration; and (2) assess and report to Congress on the economic implications of the dependence of Hawaii on oil as its principal source of energy.

There was also an expectation that coal + CCS+EOR (enhanced oil recovery) would be competitive with natural gas with no CCS12 (e.g., SaskPower's BD3 plant in Canada and the Petra Nova Project in Texas).

Using the Petra Nova project as an example for the scale of a new carbon capture project at an existing coal - fuelled power plant, a 240 - MW capture project could yield about 1.4 million metric tonnes per year for enhanced oil recovery.

Regarding process heat, only a few projects are currently operating, but the recent start of construction of a plant to provide 1,000 MW thermal power (steam) for enhanced oil recovery in Oman can be seen as an example of the future potential.

(OAKLAND, CA) October 3, 2011 — BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, is providing its proprietary LPT solar thermal technology for use in the world's largest enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project.