A CO2 geological storage site located near the town of Estevan in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. Aquistore is used by owner/operator SaskPower as a dedicated geological storage option for CO2 captured from the nearby Boundary Dam Power Station CCS. The CO2 captured from Boundary Dam Unit 3 that is not sold for enhanced oil recovery is… Continue reading Aquistore Storage Project
A CCS project at Boundary Dam Power Station near Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. It became operational in 2014. The carbon capture facility is attached to the retrofitted 150 MW Power Unit #3 at Boundary Dam. Once captured, CO2 becomes a commodity and is sold to an oil company for Enhanced Oil Recovery purposes. This process of EOR… Continue reading Boundary Dam Carbon Capture Project
The Grande Prairie Nauticol Energy Blue Methanol project was to produce 3.4 million metric tonnes of blue methanol annually. The project, which was announced in 2018 and would have been operational in 2025, was canceled on February 7, 2023. A smaller facility could be planned on the site in the future.
A commercial-scale NET Power plant by 8 Rivers Capital in the City of Estevan NET Power’s Allam-Fetvedt cycle technology combusts natural gas with oxygen, as opposed to air, and uses supercritical carbon dioxide as a working fluid to drive the turbine and produce zero emissions electricity. This cycle can hit the same efficiency of a traditional… Continue reading Estevan NET Power Plant
A commercial CO2 flood for enhanced oil recovery development that injects CO2 deep underground to increase oil production from a crude oil reservoir. The Joffre Unit is located in central Alberta, Canada. The injection scheme takes waste CO2 from the NovaChemicals Ethylene and Polyethylene production facility. Injections began in 1984, and the Joffre Unit has… Continue reading Joffre Viking Unit
A development in southeast Saskatchewan injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) deep underground to increase oil production from two crude oil reservoirs. The project has captured over 40 million tonnes of CO2. Since 2019, it has stored 2.0 million tonnes of CO2 per year. Weyburn Unit produces primarily light oil. The Weyburn Unit has been in existence… Continue reading Weyburn Unit
In October 2021, FCL announced a partnership with Whitecap Resources to bring capture carbon and sequestration to the Co-op Refinery Complex and Co-op Ethanol Complex. Through the planned operating agreement, carbon dioxide emissions captured from the Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina and Co-op Ethanol Complex near Belle Plaine, Sask., would be transported to, stored in… Continue reading FCL Co-op Refinery Complex & Co-op Ethanol Complex Carbon Capture
In May 2022, FCL partnered with Whitecap Resources and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources on a research study about the potential development of a hydrogen hub in Saskatchewan. The study’s aim is to produce an analysis of commercial-scale hydrogen opportunities and synergies with carbon capture utilization and storage infrastructure in Saskatchewan.
Federated Co-Operatives Limited’s Renewable Diesel Complex in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The facility, with a canola processing plant, will be known as the Integrated Agriculture Complex. The two facilities are projected to be a CAD 2bn investment. The renewable diesel plant will have a production capacity of about 15,000 barrels per day, which adds up to… Continue reading FCL Renewable Diesel Complex
The Athabasca Leismer CCS project plans to capture 440,000 tpa of CO2 in two phases. The CCS project is on a once-through steam generator (thermal oil operations). The Athabasca Leismer project has received significant financial support from the Alberta government through Emission Reduction Alberta’s Carbon Kickstart Grant and is expected to be fully eligible for… Continue reading Athabasca Leismer CCS
