Abby L. Harvey
GHG Monitor
6/5/2015
The Petroleum Technology Research Center this week celebrated the official opening of the Aquistore carbon storage project at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station in Saskatchewan, Canada. The project will serve as the storage site for CO2 captured from the Boundary Dam project not being used in enhanced oil recovery. Boundary Dam, the world’s first post-combustion coal-fired carbon capture and storage project, came on line in October 2014. “Saskatchewan has become a real focal point of worldwide interest in CCS. The Aquistore project has brought together one of the largest arrays of research partners and expertise anywhere in the world to investigate the safe storage of CO2,” PTRC CEO Ken From said in a release.
Aquistore consists of two wells located on SaskPower land, less than two miles from the Boundary Dam plant. CO2 stored at the project will be injected more than two miles underground into the Deadwood and Winnipeg deep saline formations. According to a PTRC release, the project has the potential to store nearly 1 million tonnes of CO2 annually. The project is supported by Natural Resources Canada’s ecoENERGY Technology Initiative (ecoETI) and through federal funding via Sustainable Development Technologies Canada, Korea’s National Oil Corporation, Enbridge, Consumers Co-operative Refinery Limited (CCRL), SaskPower, Schlumberger Carbon Services and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment.
