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September 01, 2010 GHGT | Abstract

The Fort Nelson Carbon Capture and Storage Project A Program for Large-Scale Geologic Storage of CO2 from a Natural Gas-Processing Plant in British Columbia, Canada

Nearly 1600 facilities around the world remove impurities such as carbon dioxide (CO2) from producers' raw sour natural gas, and the Fort Nelson gas-processing plant in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, owned and operated by Spectra Energy, is among the largest. For this reason, Spectra Energy and the Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership are working together in a collaborative venture involving government, industry, technical experts, and researchers to demonstrate the concept of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to manage the CO2 emissions of a large natural gas-processing facility. Over the course of the Fort Nelson CCS project, the conceptual design envisions injecting 1.3 to 2 Mt per year of sour CO2 into a saline formation situated at approximately 2.2 to 2.3 km deep. The movement and fate of the sour CO2 in the subsurface is to be monitored to ensure the safe and effective operation of geologic storage sites for CO2 in this region and provide a reference for other large-scale CCS projects in deep saline formations. Over the next decade, the demonstration will store 13 to 20 Mt of CO2 that would have otherwise entered the atmosphere. The sour CO2 stream (95% CO2, 5% H2S) from Spectra Energy's Fort Nelson gas-processing facility, located near Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, is capture ready. In the current plan, the final phase of the capturing phase would call for the sour CO2 to be compressed to a supercritical state and then be transported via pipeline approximately 20 km to a site where it would be injected to a depth of over 2200 meters for permanent storage in brine-saturated carbonate rocks of the Devonian-age Beaverhill Lake Group and/or Elk Point Group. The Fort Nelson CCS project also has the potential to generate 9 MW of green power from waste heat recovery, a zero net fuel requirement above business-as-usual sour gas

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10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies (GHGT-10)
9/23/2010
Amsterdam,