Belle Plaine Integrated Polygeneration CCS Project
Canada
Canceled
Overview
Status
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Canceled
Region
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North America
Geography
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Canada
State
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Saskatchewan
Equity Owner
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TC Energy
Proponent
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TC Energy
Output
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Carbon capture utilization storage (CCUS)
Type of electricty
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Capacity
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1 Mt/yr CO2
Financing
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Technology
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Pre-Combustion Capture
Technical Advisors
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Advisors
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Project Contact
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Lawyers
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Project Cost
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CAD $5bn
Offtaker
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Commercial Operations Date
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2013
Decommission Date
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FID
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Description
A polygeneration facility in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, where large volumes of petcoke — a low-value product of heavy oil upgrading — would be gasified and used to produce a number of products, including hydrogen, steam, and sulphur, and to generate up to 500 MW in electricity to potentially displace aging coal-fired generation stations in Saskatchewan.
Process CO2 would also be used by two large fertilizer plants located near the proposed polygeneration facility.
Reductions in CO2 emissions would result from capturing and sequestering 80–90 percent of the CO2 from the polygeneration facility, as well as from offsetting the use of natural gas to produce hydrogen and steam at the fertilizer plants.
Captured CO2 would be sequestered at enhanced oil recovery sites and in saline aquifers in southeastern Saskatchewan.
The facility was supposed to be operational by 2013, but it looks like the project was abandoned.