The Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership: Demonstrating The Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide
The Plains CO2;Reduction (PCOR) Partnership is one of seven regional partnerships awarded in 2003 by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory to determine the best methods and technologies to safely and permanently demonstrate the geologic storage of CO2. The PCOR Partnership region covers an area of over 1.4 million square miles in the central interior of North America, and includes all or part of nine U.S. states and four Canadian provinces. Several efforts by the PCOR Partnership have been completed to date, including a best practices manual for a injecting 2 million tonnes of CO2;per year into a saline formation [1, 2]; a regional technology implementation plan for a combined acid gas enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and CO2;storage project [3]; and a binational effort between the United States and Canada to characterize the lowermost saline system in the Williston and Alberta Basins [4]. Ongoing efforts include the Bell Creek and Aquistore projects. The Aquistore project is a carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) project managed by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC). Aquistore will serve as buffer storage for CO2;from the SaskPower Boundary Dam CCUS project, the world's first commercial-scale postcombustion CCUS project from a coal-fired electricity generating facility. The PCOR Partnership is working witView/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
10th CO2GeoNet Open Forum
5/11/2015
Venice,