Dans une certaine mesure, on doit admettre que les Européens sont légèrement en avance sur le RdM, avec Castor et CO2Sink.
Rappelons que les technologies nécessaires à la maîtrise du CCS incluent :
- le génie chimique pour commencer, puisque la capure initiale du CO2 est facilitée si on "'livre" un produit déjà prétraité
- le matériel industriel lourd, nécessaire pour manipuler des quantités élevées de CO2
- la géologie, afin de garantir un stockage de longue durée (>1000 ans)
- le forage
Les capacités combinées de France+Allemagne+UK sont au meilleur niveau mondial. Même si les Etatsuniens prétendent en surface ne pas s'y intéresser, leur technologie est équivalente.
Project Name
Project Size
(MM tons CO2 /yr)
Year Begun, to Begin
Project Summary
- K12B
Initial inj.: 30 kt/yr
2006+: 0.4 MMt/yr
Total: 8 MMt
2004
Enhanced gas recovery demo project.- RECOPOL
Designed: 20 t/d
Achieved: 1-1.3 t/d
Total: 3 Mt
2004
Injection into coal seam has been more difficult than expected.
Horizontal wells have been drilled.- Hokkaido
Injection rate: 2 t/d
Total injected: 24 t
2004
CO2 -ECBM test project.
Spring 2005 wells will be refurbished (original cementing not satisfactory) and new more extensive CO2 injection test planned.- CASTOR
Rate: 10 kt/yr
2004
Currently conducting pilot-scale tests of post combustion capture and case studies of four potential geologic storage sites.- Quinshi
Total injected: 200 t Duration: 22 d
2005
The next phase of the project will involve a multi well test, the design of which will be complete in 2005.- Otway
Rate: 160 t/d
Duration: 2 yrs
Total: 0.1 MMt
Late 2005
Planned pilot-scale project.
Saline formation and depleted gas field.- CO2 SINK
Rate: 30 kt/y
Duration: at least 2 yrs
2006
Project to test and evaluate CO2 capture and storage at an existing natural gas storage facility and in a deeper land-based saline formation.- ARC ECBM Recovery Project
Pilot-scale project (3 test wells).- Sleipner
1.0
1996
CO2 is captured from an off-shore natural gas processing platform and injected into a saline formation.
Project motivated by a net tax on CO2 emissions.- Weyburn
1.5
2000
CO2 is captured in North Dakota and piped across the US-Canada border to the Weyburn oilfield in Saskatchewan.
Significant modeling and field testing of CO2 monitoring equipment being conducted in parallel to EOR project.- In Salah
1.2
2004
CO2 captured from natural gas processing and reinjected to enhance natural gas recovery.- Snow White (Snohvit)
0.75
2006
Need to purify natural gas before liquefaction (raw natural gas 5-8% CO2 ).- CCPC
2007
Project still in planning stages.
Leaning toward EOR combined with either post-combustion or oxyfuel.- Gorgon
4.0
2009
Need to purify natural gas before liquefaction.
Raw natural gas 12% CO2 .- Alaska gas pipeline project
12
Need to purify natural gas to meet pipeline standards ( Prudhoe bay raw gas 12% CO2 ).
CO2 capture qualifies for 15% EOR tax credit.- Stanwell
Part of Australia’s clean coal program.
No details on the project available.- Hypogen
Pre-feasibility study complete in January 2005
EU version of FutureGen
Innovation Center Initiative (North Sea EOR)
Large-scale proposed project to help Great Britain/Europe meet Kyoto limits and also extend the productive life of the North Sea fields.
CO2 source unspecified.