The School of Energy Resources (SER) at the University of Wyoming (UW) is dedicated to energy-driven economic development for the state of Wyoming. Created in 2006, SER enhances the university’s energy-related education, research, and outreach.
Regional Initiative Technical Assistance Partnership for Greater Green River and Wind Basins
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected the University of Wyoming (UW) School of Energy Resources (SER) to lead a regional initiative for technical assistance partnerships to advance the deployment of basin-scale carbon transportation and storage. With an anticipated $4.7 million from DOE, the planned $5.9 million Wyoming Technical Assistance Collaboration for Carbon Management (WYTAC-CM) project intends to build a comprehensive and intuitive central data repository of technical and nontechnical information to accelerate development of carbon storage projects in the Greater Green River Basin and Wind River Basin. The 3-year project aims to conduct a data aggregation campaign that will include technical inventories of CO2 storage reservoirs and confining units; current and potential CO2 sources; and current and pending CO2 capture, transport and storage projects.
(https://www.uwyo.edu/ser/news/2024/08/ritap-award.html)
Dry Fork Station FEED Study Completed
The Center for Economic Geology Research (CEGR) in the UW SER completed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for the Wyoming CarbonSAFE project, which is developing a carbon storage hub around Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s Dry Fork Station near Gillette.
In collaboration with Resolute Engineering, the FEED study evaluated, analyzed, and presented various considerations in transporting carbon dioxide from Dry Fork Station to proposed Class VI injection wells that are being assessed under Phase III of the Wyoming CarbonSAFE Project.
(https://www.uwyo.edu/ser/news/2024/08/carbonsafe-feed-study.html)
Federal Pore Space Workshop
SER hosted an informative workshop in June to investigate valuation methodologies for pore space in CCUS projects as part of a study entitled “Understanding Pore Space Values: A Technical, Legal and Economic Analysis of Valuation Methodologies and Contractual Structures.” Funded by DOE and led by SER Professor of Law and UW’s Occidental Chair in Energy and Environmental Policies Tara Righetti, the project aims to develop guidance for determining contract structures, relative compensation, and valuation methodologies for pore space on federal and private onshore lands in the United States. The workshop brought together an impressive array of leaders in carbon sequestration from industry, academia, and government where the research team presented their findings to date.
(https://www.uwyo.edu/ser/news/2024/07/pore-space-valuation.html)