Enhance Plans Alberta Carbon Dioxide Pipeline
Date: 11-Jul-08
Country: CANADA
Enhance said the pipeline will be located in central Alberta, where it will capture carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands upgrading plant planned by North West Upgrading Inc, and a fertilizer plant operated by Agrium Inc.
The move comes two days after Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach announced C$2 billion (US$1.98 billion) in funding for carbon capture and storage projects, a move lauded by companies and industry organizations planning to develop ways to cut emissions amid booming industrial activity.
Enhance's system will have capacity of 25,000 tonnes per day with initial volumes of 5,000 tonnes per day, it said.
"Environmentally, the completed project will be equivalent to taking 1.6 million cars off the road, so it's positive for Albertans on many levels," Enhance President Susan Cole said in a statement. "It's one of the largest projects in the world and it's not experimental, it's based on proven technology."
Regulatory applications are planned for the spring of 2009 and project startup is targeted for 2011, the company said.
It did not give a cost estimate in the statement announcing the project.
The company awarded design and project management contract to Sunstone Projects Ltd.
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(Reporting by Jeffrey Jones; Editing by Peter Galloway)