A refinery and a fertiliser plant connected to the now operational Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL) have become the world’s 20th and 21st large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities in operation.
The ACTL carbon capture, utilisation and storage system, announced as fully operational today, utilises and stores CO2 captured at the North West Redwater Partnership (NWR) Sturgeon Refinery and Nutrien’s Redwater Fertiliser Facility. The two projects have a combined capture and storage capacity of almost 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 per annum (mtpa).
The ACTL is a 240km pipeline that transports CO2 to aging oil fields for secure and permanent geologic storage via enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The pipeline offers transport services and is owned and operated by Wolf Midstream while Enhance Energy will be the owner and operator of the CO2 utilisation and storage part of the facility. The pipeline can transport up to 14.6 mtpa of CO2.
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