Carbon Sequestration Plant
Federal officials on Monday released their draft environmental study for a pioneering carbon sequestration project proposed for western Wyoming.
Cimarex Energy Co. of Denver is proposing to construct the large-scale carbon sequestration project as part of its Rand Butte Project along the Wyoming Range in southwest Wyoming.
Company officials think the $100 million effort would be the largest sequestration project in the world, and, when completed, the plant could also account for about 30 percent of the world’s helium production.
The project aims to test new technologies for capturing and then reinjecting all the by-product gases — primarily CO2 and H2S — back into their source producing formation.
The BLM’s assessment said the project would test a new cryogenic gas processing technology to separate economical gases from CO2 and H2S. The project will also test a practice that immediately reinjects the unwanted gases back into the formation without further processing.
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Cimarex Energy Co. of Denver is proposing to construct the large-scale carbon sequestration project as part of its Rand Butte Project along the Wyoming Range in southwest Wyoming.
Company officials think the $100 million effort would be the largest sequestration project in the world, and, when completed, the plant could also account for about 30 percent of the world’s helium production.
The project aims to test new technologies for capturing and then reinjecting all the by-product gases — primarily CO2 and H2S — back into their source producing formation.
The BLM’s assessment said the project would test a new cryogenic gas processing technology to separate economical gases from CO2 and H2S. The project will also test a practice that immediately reinjects the unwanted gases back into the formation without further processing.
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4 Comments:
CO2 may be captured as a pure by-product in processes related to petroleum refining or from flue gases from power generation.
Biosequestration or carbon sequestration through biological processes has a huge effect on the Global carbon cycle.
It is difficult to asses the costs of carbon sequestration in soils as many factors affect costs including soil quality.
Sequestration practices may have positive effects on soil, air, and water quality, be beneficial to wildlife, and expand food production.
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