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PowerMarketers.com Enhanced Oil Recovery as Carbon Capture and Sequestration
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| Utilizing carbon dioxide (CO2) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is not new, but a growing number of policymakers see it as an important part of the emerging carbon-management landscape. More importantly, injecting CO2 into EOR projects relies on proven technology that has been safely implemented and in operation for more than 30 years.
Anadarko Petroleum operates one of the world’s largest EOR projects using CO2 – the Salt Creek project in Wyoming. Over the last six years, Anadarko has injected more than 174 billion cubic feet of carbon dioxide into Salt Creek, leading to the production/recovery of 10 million incremental barrels of oil. Read More→ |
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Labour’s preference for market principles and big companies betrays its low-carbon rhetoric
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- The Guardian, Friday 27 February 2009
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The UK’s energy policy has to focus on lowering carbon emissions by a combination of renewable energy and reducing demand. This requires a system almost entirely different from that we have in place today: one that is conducive to innovation and change; and one that is flexible and resilient to all sorts of technological futures.
The current coal policy illuminates just how static and rigid – the opposite of innovative – Britain’s energy policy is. This lack of innovation has been fought for, and won, by the large companies and lobbies, so they can carry on doing as they wish – despite the urgency of climate change. The government has been complicit in this, and it is the people of Britain, and their children, who will have to pay for the consequences.
- Catherine Mitchell is professor of energy policy at the University of Exeter catherine.mitchell@exeter.ac.uk
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Senior Energy Analyst reports on biochar as economic method of CCS
Posted by: | CommentsClaverton,
Just read this on bio-char.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/67843ec0-020b-11de-8199-000077b07658.html
Sound’s good to me. At £9/tonne this seems a sizeable contribution to GHG
reduction at a carbon price we already have in the EU cap and trade system.
I think the silver buckshot Al Gore cites will have many such low tech, low
cost solutions. For me making charcoal is an intuitively correct solution
as it seems to be a simple way of compressing the natural carbon capture
cycle that can be done at low capital costs and with lots of other benefits
as well.
Rgds
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Use of bio char as a carbon sequestration method
Posted by: | CommentsMore evidence that bio char is a good wheeze………
Abstract Abrupt Climate Change (ACC – NAS, 2001) is an issue that ‘haunts the climate change problem’ (IPCC, 2001) but has been neglected by policy makers up to now, maybe for want of practicable measures for effective response, save for risky geo-engineering. Read More→
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Chris Hodrien’s CCS / Carbon Capture and Storage prediction comes true in US
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Chis Hodrien told us all at the October Claverton conference at Wessex Water Bath. that gasification-CCS was poised to become reality!
It is interesting that the States are all legislating in favour of gasification IGCC (having recognised its many advantages for new-build), the very opposite of the British Gov’ts post-combustion CCS bias. They also recognise the need for an “across-the board” subsidy for such plants (NB significantly less than current UK ROC’s) , which the UK gov’t have yet to offer. Presumably they also recognise clean coal’s advantage of providing dependable, controllable, predictable 24/7 power and fuel cheap storability.
The “more-affordable” performance criterion of equivalence with existing NG combined cycle plants (= 50 -60% CO2 removal), also already adopted in Japan, seems a reasonable “medium-term” standard to me (rather than the UK’s/EU’s “radical” 90% target), given that such plants will be displacing either conventional coal (time-expired) or NG CCGT plants (as gas runs short).The plants could be designed to be “capture-ready” to increase % removal to c. 90% later (still cheaper than current UK wind!) , e.g. to meet the UK 2050 80% reduction target, without unnecessarily crippling their economics (i.e increasing subsidy needed) in the mid-term. (NB: 2050 will be “late in life” for a plant built new in 2015-2020).
Chris Hodrien
See also http://www.claverton-energy.com/carbon-capture-and-sequestration.html
http://www.claverton-energy.com/carbon-capture-and-sequestration.html
States work to make clean coal a reality - -Power Eng Int’ 27jan09
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