Company/Alliance: BP: Hydrogen Energy and Edison Mission Group, with sponsors and participants Fluor, GE Energy, Occidental Petroleum, and West Basin Water District
Location: Carson, California, USA
Feedstock: Petcoke to Hydrogen
Size: 500 MW, 4-5 million tonnes of CO2 per year captured and stored
Capture Technology: IGCC (for petroleum coke) capturing about 90% of the CO2 released
CO2 Fate:: EOR
Timing: Initial engineering feasibility studies (completed), permit application (2007), front-end engineering (2007), anticipated finalization of project investment decision (2008), and start-up of the new plant operation (2012)
Motivation/Economics: The expected cost is around $2 billion, twice the initial estimate, with tax credits worth $90 million from US Department of Energy (DOE) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Comments: The project is the largest hydrogen-fired power generation facility in the world with both state and local support. BP has been discussing with Occidental Petroleum Corporation the possibility of injecting the captured CO2 into their mature California oilfields. Occidental Petroleum is injecting more than one billion cubic feet of CO2 per day in the Permian Basin oil operations in Texas and New Mexico and is the world’s largest CO2 operator.
Project Link: BP Carson Project
Other Sources and Press Release:
Carson Hydrogen Power Project [PDF] (May 2007)
Carbon Hydrogen Power - WestCarb Annual Meeting [PDF] (November 2006)
Clean fuel from Carson Hydrogen plant (July 2006)
Carson Power project presentation (April 2006)
BP and GE (July 2006)
Occidental and BP to Evaluate CO2 Sequestration Options for California (February 2006)
BP and Edison Mission Group Plan Major Hydrogen Power Project for California (February 2006)
