Masdar planning 500km CCS pipeline network
05 December 2010
Utilities-me.com Masdar (the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) plans to award a contract next year to build a 500 km (311 miles) pipeline network for carbon capture and storage (CCS). Pipeline engineering design was completed earlier this year; Masdar is working on an agreement with ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.), which will be the off-taker for the carbon dioxide.
Masdar expects 50 km of the pipeline to be ready by 2014 for the country’s first operational large-scale carbon capture and storage project, siphoning 800,000 metric tons a year of carbon dioxide from government-owned steel plant Emirates Steel Industries PJSC. The carbon dioxide will be injected into oilfields, replacing natural-gas used to boost pressure inside reservoirs for enhanced oil recovery, [Keristofer Seryani,deputy manager for commercial development] said.
...The pipeline network will connect existing and future power and industrial plants to onshore oilfields, and the carbon capture program will last 25 years from 2014, Seryani said.
Dakota Gasification should also extend its CCS pipeline to more Canadian and US oilfields for the same purpose. It should also get a loan to expand its operation into making methanol and gasoline. Methanol can be stored for decades until it is needed to make gasoline or DME for diesel trucks or spray cans. ..HG..
Posted by: Henry Gibson | 05 December 2010 at 10:29 AM
A smart way to use surplus CO2. If all oil producer would take similar actions, the world could get rid a many million tonnes of it while increasing oil recovery at most wells. That's a real win-win idea.
Posted by: HarveyD | 05 December 2010 at 10:31 AM
The governor of Montana suggested this years ago. He also wanted to turn some of the state's coal into diesel fuel. Attracting investment is what governors do, but in this case there seems to be no rush to make it happen.
Posted by: SJC | 07 December 2010 at 02:12 PM