A bill was introduced in the Indiana Senate that will provide companies that construct and operate pipelines the authority to use eminent domain to acquire pipeline right-of-ways for carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines. This is not a new concept. Indiana has existing legislative statutes that provide eminent domain rights for pipelines that transport other products. The bill will amend the existing statute to include pipelines that transport carbon dioxide.

The DOE announced the names of the projects selected to receive funding for carbon capture and sequestration projects. The funding is from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. ConocoPhillips received approximately $3,000,000 for its project to capture and sequester CO2. Leucadia Energy received funding for two projects: the Lake Charles Cogeneration project received approximately $540,000 and the Mississippi Gasification received approximately $840,000.

The NETL, a DOE agency, has issued a report that estimates the volume of CO2 that could be stored long term under Federal land. DOE has released a report that estimates the amount of CO2 that can be sequestered under Federal land titled “Storage of Captured Carbon Dioxide Beneath Federal Lands“. The report estimates and characterizes the storage potential that lies beneath some of the more than 400 million acres of Federal land available for lease.

Montana and Saskatchewan agree to work together on the development on what may be the largest international carbon capture and storage demonstration projects in the world. Montana and Saskatchewan are collaborating to construct a world class carbon sequestration project. The Governor of Montana and the Premier of Saskatchewan signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create [...]

Denbury Resources is bullish on tertiary recovery operations from mature oil fields and is building a CO2 pipeline from Louisiana to Texas. Denbury Resources Inc. is going to build a new CO2 pipeline from Donaldsonville, LA to Hastings Field named the Green Pipeline. The Hasting Field is the site of a mature oil field between [...]

The DOE has developed a CO2 map that shows the potential CO2 sequestration geological formations. Most of the electric power in the United States is produced with coal fired power plants. In fact, more than half of the total power for the U.S. is estimated to be generated by coal fired power plants. The CO2 [...]

This story has been updated in a February 16, 2009 article about the Southeast Idaho Energy LLC plant to be constructed near American Falls, Idaho. The original story is below: The Sierra Club, the Earth Justice Defense Council, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Idaho Conservation League are joined with the Shoshonee-Bannock tribe in opposition [...]

The Department of Energy (DOE) Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership and Denbury Resources Inc. are testing CO2 movement when CO2 is injected into geological formations for enhanced oil recovery. The test is being performed at the Cranfield oil field near Natchez, Mississippi. The Natchez, MS CO2 sequestration project will prove the viability of storing CO2 [...]

The DOE through the regional partnerships for CO2 sequestration and testing has funded three large volume sites. The sites are: The Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership The Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership The Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration These three projects double the number of large volume CO2 storage test sites. The projects include participation [...]

The Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership led by Southern States Energy Board, will demonstrate CO2 storage in the lower Tuscaloosa Formation Massive Sand Unit. This geologic formation stretches from Texas to Florida and has the potential to store more than 200 years of CO2 emissions from major point sources in the region. The partnership will [...]