Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership – The Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership, led by the Energy & Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota, will conduct geologic CO2 storage projects in the Alberta and Williston Basins. The Williston Basin project in North Dakota will couple enhanced oil recovery and CO2 storage in a deep carbonate [...]

Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration – Coordinated by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, the Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration will inject several million tons of CO2 into the Jurassic-age Entrada Sandstone Formation in the southwestern United States. The Entrada formation stretches from Colorado to Wyoming and is a significant storage [...]

The Department of Energy has begun a very important CO2 sequestration test project in New Mexico. The project will inject of CO2 into geoligical formations deep in the earth in New Mexico at the San Juan Basin near Navajo City, NM. This is a test project to develop information regarding long term storage (sequestration) of [...]

The DOE is funding carbon sequestration testing through seven regional partnerships. One of the seven partnerships is the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRSCP). It will perform long term studies to determine if large quantities of carbon dioxide can be safely stored in deep underground geologic formations. Carbon sequestration is important because it allows the [...]

Coal gasification is a proven technology. Sasol in South Africa has been using the technology for many years, because South Africa doesn’t have an abundance of natural gas like the U.S. The advantage that coal gasification technology has when compared to other traditional coal technologies used for power plants such as “pulverized coal” technology is [...]

Governor Steve Beshear announced that the State of Kentucky is joining the newly created Western Kentucky Carbon Storage Foundation. The non-profit foundation is dedicated to researching the opportunities for carbon storage in the state. The project funding is $7.8 million total. The foundation partners include Peabody Energy, ConocoPhillips and E.ON U.S. The foundation work will [...]

A study prepared by the National Energy Technology Laboratory for the Department of Defense and the U.S.Air Force concludes that a gasification plant that uses a feed of 85% to 90% coal and 10% – 15% biomass to produce jet fuel will produce 20% less CO2 than a conventional petroleum refinery operation. This is based [...]