Company/Alliance: PCOR. Partners: University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental research Center, Spectra Energy Transmission, and NETL, Ebergy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Location: Spectra Energy's Fort Nelson gas plant, NE British Colombia, Canada
Feedstock: Natural Gas
Size: 1 Mt/Yr
Capture Technology: IGCC (Pre Combustion Capture)
CO2 Fate: Storage will be in a saline aquifer.
Timing: Characterization (2008-9), Injection and MMV Operations (2011), Post injection MMV (2016-17)
Motivation/Economics: Characterization of the regional saline formations for large scale injection of anthropogenic CO2.The BC provincial government has procided a $3.4 Million grand to help fund an initial feasibility phase.
Comments: This project is one of the 3 which received funding from the DOE in September 2007.It is projected to last 6 years. PCOR is also organizing a CCS project for EOR in the Williston Basin in North Dakota. This project is determining whether underground storage is suitable for the permanent storage of CO2 and hydrogen sulphide. (These compunds are currently being removed at the Fort Nelson gas plant.
Project Link: Fort Nelson CCS Feasibility Project Announced (May 2008) [PDF]
Other Sources and Press Release:
International partnerships evaluate feasibility of CCS project in BC, Canada (June 2008)
Spectra Energy Announces support of Fort Nelson CCS Project (May 2008)
Acid Gas Re-Injection (Jan 2007) [PDF]
PCOR project (Oct 2007) [PDF]
EERC Website
Spectra Energy Website
