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December 2007

Vol. 12, No. 49 Week of December 09, 2007

Canada studies CO2 collection, delivery

A coalition of Canadian oil producers, pipeline companies and provincial governments has hired SNC-Lavalin to undertake a C$500,000 study of a carbon dioxide collection and pipeline system that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the refinery area east of Edmonton.

The Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada said the study will provide design and cost estimates for a CO2 collection system from various petrochemical plants, refineries and upgraders and look at the transportation of CO2 through a common pipeline system. PTAC said a steering committee believes there will be sufficient CO2 from the area to support “commercial scale enhanced recovery” of conventional oil in Alberta, although its work will not cover pipelines to enhanced recovery fields.

PTAC President Soheil Asgarpour said the work will be a “major step forward in producing clean energy from Alberta’s hydrocarbon resources” creating a win-win situation for producers, transporters and CO2 emitters.

The National Energy Board has said so-called carbon capture storage has the “potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” but conceded there are technological and economic challenges to achieving that objective on a major scale, while noting that combining existing technologies has yet to be proven.

A number of producers and industry associations have been putting pressure on governments to take a more active role in tackling the problems confronting carbon capture storage.

—Gary Park






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