Company/Alliance: SECARB. Primary Sponsors: DOE/NETL & SSEB. Secondary Sponsors: Texas Bureau of Economoic Geology, Denbury Resources Inc, Advanced Resources international, & Electric Power Research Institute.
Location: Cranfield Oil Field, Natchez, Miss, USA
Start Date:
Phase 1, EOR: Characterization(2008-9), Injection and MMV Operations ( 2009-14) Post Injection MMV (2015-17).
Phase 2, Saline test: Characterization (2008-10), Injection and MMV Operations (2010-14), Post Injection MMV (2015-17).
Size: Phase 1: 1.5 Mt/Yr . Part 2: 0.1-0.25 Mt/Yr
CO2 Source: Phase 1: Natural source . Part 2: Gas Processing
Storage : Phase 1: EOR, Phase 2: Brine Reservoir. Both within the Lower Tuscaloosa Formation.
Motivation/Economics: This project is designed to build public assurance about the use of underground carbon sequestration to reduce atmospheric emissions. The SECARB region emits 1.1 billion tons of CO2 per year and this project will test the capacity of the Tuscaloosa Formation to hold large volumes of CO2.
Comments: SECARB (South East Regional Partnership) is part of the US regional partnerships. SECARB recently received a $38 Million US award from DOE (Oct 2007).
This project has 2 phases: Phase 1: EOR, Phase 2: Storage in saline aquifer below the Oil-Water contact at the same site. The Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas will run this 10 year project
Project Link: Press release from University of Texas on recieveing funding (October 2007)
Other Sources and Press Release:
SECARB Website
Underground Storage to begin (October 2007)
News release from UT Austin (October 2007)
Press release (October 2007)
