The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership: Ongoing Carbon Management Activities in the Interior Plains of North America
The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership is one of seven regional partnerships competitively awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory as part of a national plan to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. 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. Ongoing activities are intended to demonstrate that CO2 capture, storage, and transportation can be achieved safely, permanently, and economically at a large scale and include two commercial-scale demonstration tests. The first demonstration involves monitoring, verification, and accounting support for the injection of CO2 captured from one of the largest gas-processing plants in North America into a saline formation in British Columbia, Canada. The second demonstration will inject CO2 in the Powder River Basin in southeastern Montana for the dual purpose of CO2 storage and enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The PCOR Partnership's efforts will support its commercial partner with the integration of EOR operations and effective CO2 monitoring and verification, ultimately documenting the permanence of underground CO2 storage. The ultimate goal is to demonstrate the efficacy of combined EOR and CO2 storage operations.View/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
EUEC 2011 14th Annual Energy, Utility & Environment Conference
1/31/2011
Phoenix, AZ