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Enhance Energy to build Alberta CO2 pipeline
Storage, July 23 2008 (Carbon Capture Journal)
- Enhance Energy, an Alberta-based energy company specialising in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), plans to build a new CO2 transmission system through the central part of Alberta.
The Enhance CO2 Pipeline System will be capable of gathering CO2 from several sources in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland and transporting the CO2 to existing mature oil fields in
South-Central Alberta.
The CO2 will be used for EOR to increase production and will ultimately be permanently stored in the reservoir. The initial supply of CO2 will by provided by North West Upgrading and Agrium.
The project establishes a cooperative partnership where one industry relies on the waste products of another. By storing their emissions, North West Upgrading and Agrium have the lowest CO2 profiles for projects of their type in the world.
The system will be designed for capacity expansion and delivery flexibility, the company said.
It will have a design capacity of 25,000 tonnes per day with the initial throughput planned at 5,000 tonnes per day.
It will consist of:
• drying and compression facilities at the north end in the Heartland Industrial Region on the Agrium and North West Upgrader sites, which will process the CO2 that will be collected and bring the product up to pipeline specifications
• a pump station east of Fort Saskatchewan in the Heartland Industrial Region, to be called the Elk Island Pump Station, that will boost pressure on the pipeline system
• a pipeline operations and control centre located at the Elk Island Pump Station
• receipt facilities at the south end of the system which will allow distribution of the CO2 to the conventional oil and gas fields in the area
• a high vapour pressure (HVP) pipeline between the source and the delivery point, connecting the north and south facilities.
Enhance anticipates regulatory applications for the proposed project to be completed by spring of 2009, and depending on the timing of regulatory approval, construction is expected by the
end of 2009, with operational startup in 2011.
Contracts for the design and project management of the new system have been awarded to Sunstone Projects. Other technical and support contracts have been awarded to Synergas Technologies for facilities engineering.
