Is There a “New Dawn” for CO 2 -EOR?
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Is There a “New Dawn” for CO2-EOR?
Presented at WY EOR task force meeting
July 25, 2006
Casper, WY
Dag NummedalColorado Energy Research Institute
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO
View of the SPE Forum, Broomfield, June 30, 06
Consensus is yes! Large amounts of CO2 will be generated in
the future (GTL, coal gasification, coal to liquids, heavy oil SAGD, gas fields, oil shale); supply for EOR will increase
CO2 is valuable commodity for EOR purposes. Now scarce in the US
CO2 is waste for sequestration folks – resource to EOR (different ‘drivers’)
Costs/Fiscal regimes will evolve to make CO2 EOR attractive; e.g. cap and trade
Present: use‘natural’CO2 for EOR
Goal: usepower plantCO2 for EORand sequestration
CO2 for EOR in the Rocky Mountains
Wyoming CO2 Budget (’03)
CO2 RequirementsOOIP in WY candidate reservoirs: 8 BBOCO2 flooding recovers 10 -15% of OOIPEOR potential: 0.8 – 1.2 BBOCO2 required: 460 – 700 MM tons total
CO2 ProductionLaBarge: 9.7 MM tons/yrMadden: 1.2 MM tons/yrPower plant release: 58 MM tons/yr
A Glimpse of the Future: Coal Burning Power Plants
w/ Carbon CaptureBritish Consortium to Generate Clean Electricity from HydrogenBP press release, June 30, 2005.
BP, ConocoPhillips, Shell and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), have announced that they are to commence engineering design of the world's first industrial scale project to generate 'carbon-free' electricity from hydrogen.
Raw material: natural gas.Main product: H2 as fuel for turbine for electricity.CO2: Pipeline to Miller oil field, 240 km offshore.
Pet Coke for H2 and CO2-EOR BP press release, February 14 2006. Carson, CABP and Edison Mission Group (EMG), a subsidiary of Edison International, plan on
building a new $1 billion, 500 MW hydrogen-fueled power plant in California, which, while not using renewable energy, will generate clean electricity and sequester its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Raw material: petroleum coke.Main product: H2 to fuel gas turbine for electricity.CO2: Capture 90% of emissions; pipeline to an oil field for CO2-EOR.
• 860 MW gas-fired power plant and methanol facility in Mid-Norway.
• The plant will be fueled by gas from offshore fields – Draugen and Heidrun.
• The project will depend on a government funding and involvement.
• The US Department of Energy projects that carbon-dioxide capture EOR could more than quadruple US domestic oil production.
Global Growth in CO2-EOR Projects Announced Feb. 9, 2006
Shell and Statoil have started developing the world’s largest project to date using carbon dioxide (CO2) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) offshore.
2 to 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 annually in two different fields
Questions?
Japan’s CO2 Storage Commitment CLIMATE: Japan to establish underground CO2 storage Japan plans to set up facilities around the world to capture carbon
dioxide from industrial operations and store it underground, the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced yesterday.
The ministry said it aims to use a CO2 capture and storage technology called CCS that reduces CO2 emissions into the atmosphere by 200 million tons per year, a sixth of current domestic CO2 emissions. Japan would store half of the CO2 in country and the other half abroad.
Not only does Japan hope to reduce its own emissions from CCS, it hopes to employ the same technology outside of Japan alongside natural gas production. The ministry said it hopes to start obtaining carbon credits from developing countries with CCS technology by 2010.
Pending international rules should establish how to count developed nations' CO2 reduction using CCS technology in developing countries along with developed nations' own reductions (Japan Times, June 20).
Japan’s Major Storage Comitment - 2
Burying CO2 not 'silver bullet' to combating global warming, expert says While energy firms around the world are heavily investing in projects to bury
carbon dioxide, it is a costly venture that has the overall effect of a pinprick in the world's total emissions, an International Energy Agency expert said yesterday.
"It's expensive ... this can be one solution among many to global warming [but] it's not going to be a silver bullet," Kelly Thambimuthu said during a carbon dioxide conference in Trondheim, Norway.
Projects in Norway, Australia, Scotland and the United States tout goals of burying as much as 15 million metric tons of CO2 per year, a fraction of the 25 billion metric tons of emissions globally every year. A 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant emits about 3 million metric tons per year.
Additionally, the high cost of storing CO2 underground, when compared with the cost of carbon credits, does not make storage cost-effective. Thambimuthu said that in Europe for storage to be economically viable the cost for a carbon credit would have to rise from its current $18.99 per metric ton of CO2 to at least $30 per metric ton or higher (Alister Doyle, Reuters/New Zealand Herald, June 20).
Principles Behind Miscible CO2 Flooding
CO2 flooding works: History of CO2 – EOR at two Wyoming Oil Fields
Weyburn Time-Lapse (2002-2000)
RMS Amplitude % Difference (2002-2000)
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Tom Davis, CSM
Edge of salt
dissolution
CO2 fingering
Global and US Capacity for CO2-EOR
Global: 120 GtCO2US: 12 GtCO2Current rates of CO2 release:World: 26 GtCO2
Carbon Dioxide Captureand Geologic Storage; Battelle, April 2006JJ Dooley (Lead Author), RT Dahowski, CL Davidson,MA Wise, N Gupta, SH Kim, EL Malone
Today375 ppm
Why we need to do this:CO2 from 400,000 – 0 ybp
CO2 _EOR projects in pipeline Gas Injection & Environmental Driven Projects? Most New Projects in North America – 15+, But projects in the pipeline in many
areas: Oman, North Sea, North Slope, Brazil, Malaysia, Tengiz, etc Several pure sequestration projects coming Source gas limitations. Projects occurring where there is gas, geologic gas, cheap
waste gas, no market for produced gas: How do we increase available gas? Permian Basin successful due to concentration of large fields, low reservoir temperature
and good residual oil target Pipeline and infrastructure built during “irrational exuberance” of 1980’s (could we use
some “rational” exuberance?) CO2 can be successfully contained – no leaks to surface.
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The Economics of Adding Reserves by CO2 Flooding
A: Average finding and development cost from 1995 to 1999, on different ‘continents’.
B: Average finding, development, and production cost in the US from 1995 to 1999 ($10, left column), compared to cost per barrel of reserves developed for CO2 flooding ($6, right column). From Bradley, 2001.
Weyburn Field
CANADA
U.S.A.
ALBERTAMANITOBA
MONTANA
WYOMING SOUTH DAKOTA
NORTH DAKOTA
EDMONTON
SASKATOON
PRINCEALBERT
WINNIPEGBRANDON
REGINA
HELENABISMARCK
PIERRE
CALGARY
SEDIMENTARY BASIN
HUDSONBAY
WEYBURN
SASKATCHEWAN
The Source of CO2
Dakota Gasification Company
250 mmscfd CO2 by-product of coal (lignite) gasification
95 mmscfd (5000 tonnes/day) contracted and injected at Weyburn
EnCana currently injects 120 mmscfd (i.e. 21% recycle)
ReginaRegina
EstevanEstevan
BismarckBismarck
North DakotaNorth Dakota
MontanaMontana
ManitobaManitoba
SaskatchewanSaskatchewan CanadaCanada
USAUSA
WeyburnWeyburn
BeulahBeulah