EOR, or enhanced oil recovery, is an obvious good and for the most part the CO2 used therein is tapped from natural underground resources, so it involves no energy loss at generation plants and no loss of CO2 to the biosphere. Generating plant CCS though is a horse of an entirely different color. Continue reading
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How Far Can CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery Drive Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage?
If it’s economic for enhanced oil recovery then fine, go for it. Just don’t pretend it has anything to do with carbon capture and sequestration (you get about 80% back with EOR anyway). More oil and gas, good. Less atmospheric carbon dioxide, criminally stupid. Continue reading
New Life for North Sea Oil Hinges on Coal Gas
Hmm… enhanced oil recovery is not exactly carbon dioxide sequestration since you get a lot of your CO2 back with the oil but at least it is a sensible use for the gas rather than trying to simply bury it. Continue reading
Posted in Carbon capture, Coal, Development, Oil and gas
Tagged co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, enhanced oil recovery, eor, government subsidies
Could Expensive Oil Rescue Carbon Capture?
What a difference a few years makes. Not long ago, power plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) seemed to be the key to a low carbon future. Continue reading
Posted in Carbon capture, Economics, Oil and gas
Tagged dioxycarbophobia, enhanced oil recovery, theft of natural resource
New research centre could hold key to £190bn of oil
Enhanced oil recovery? Great! (Better not tell the loopies that you get most of the CO2 back with the increased oil flow) CCS for its own sake – too stupid for words. Continue reading
Posted in Carbon capture, Development, Oil and gas
U.S. Department of Energy official touts carbon capture to boost oil production
At an Oklahoma symposium on energy, Chuck McConnell, assistant secretary for fossil energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, said capturing carbon dioxide from power plants and other industrial facilities could boost domestic oil production. Continue reading
Posted in Carbon capture, Development, Oil and gas
Tagged CCS, climate hysteria, dioxycarbophobia, enhanced oil recovery, weather superstition
