Company/Alliance: Total partnership with Air Liquide, French Petroleum Institute (IFP), the French Bureau of Geological and Mining Research (BRGM) and Alstom.
Location: Lacq, France
Feedstock: Heavy Oil, with possibility of other fuels being tested
Size: 35 MW, 40 tonnes of steam per hour, and 75,000 tonnes of CO2 per year captured and stored for two year period
Capture Technology: Oxyfuel combustion
CO2 Fate: Onshore sequestration in depleted natural gas field at Rousse (Pyrenees), 30 km from Lacq, at 4.5 km underground
Timing: Preliminary study (2006), Engineering study (2007) and Capture and CO2 injection (2009)
Motivation/Economics: The project will cost €60 million (US$83 million). It is the first integrated CO2 capture and storage system using oxyfuel combustion technology combined with injection in a depleted hydrocarbon field.
Comments: Greater understanding of the oxyfuel combustion process will help with the “hot” production of the extra-heavy Athabasca oils in Canada.
Project Link: Total: A pilot installation at Lacq
Other Sources and Press Release:
Capture set to begin early 2009 (September 2008)
Results of Stakeholders consultation [PDF] (January 2008)
Project launch press release (July 2007)
Total's CO2 pilot project at Lacq [PDF] (September 2007)
Total launches the first integrated CO2 capture and geological sequestration project in a depleted natural gas field (February 2007)
CO2 Capture and Storage- Lacq Pilot Plant [PDF] (September 2006)
Total lacq dossier [PDF]
Date modified April 28, 2009
