CO2 Capture and Sequestration

[johnlw]

..Drawing on CO2 from petrochemical manufacturing at Joffre (near Red Deer, Alta.), Penn West operates Alberta's only CO2-driven EOR project. Encouraged by that five-year pilot project, the trust is working toward construction of a CO2 pipeline that would transport that gas about 150 kilometres for EOR use in the Pembina field. In the meantime, it has drilled two innovative horizontal wells in the Pembina Cardium. The first was a water injector, designed to drive oil toward vertical wellbores, while the second well initiated a CO2 flood. Results have not been announced......

http://www.oilandgasinquirer.com/article.asp?article=magazine/090706/MAG2009_L60000.html