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CCS world projects: Kimberlina

The WESTCARB Partnership will inject 250 kt/a of CO2 for four years into a San Joaquin Basin saline formation about 2400 meters beneath a new Clean Energy Systems oxy-combustion power plant (the CO2 source) being built in Kimberlina, California. The site is currently home to a 5MW oxy-combustion pilot plant, but current plans call for a new 49MW plant and associated CO2 clean-up, compression, and injection systems to be built alongside the existing pilot plant, which is currently projected to come online in mid-2010. In 2009, in preparation for the large-volume injection operations, WESTCARB will inject small quantities of commercially acquired CO2 to verify injectivity and other subsurface characteristics important to the design of the large-volume test. For the large-volume injection test the CO2, will be transferred by pipeline to the injection wellhead, after a clean-up cycle within the plant which will result in a gas stream with a CO2 concentration of 96% or greater. The complete integrated package of results from the large-volume sequestration test at Kimberlina (modelling, monitoring, validation, evaluation, technology development, permitting, operations and maintenance, and public outreach) will serve as a model for future projects of this kind and will help set the stage for additional research and policy development.

Project Type

Storage

Location

Bakersfield, California, U.S.A

Type of CO2 Storage Operation

Onshore saline aquifer depleted gas field

Major Stakeholders

WESTCARB
California Energy Commission
Clean Energy Systems
Schlumberger

Project Scale

Demonstration

Project Start Year: 2008

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2011/2014

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approx daily Unknown
approx annual 0.25 Mt/a
total sequestration 1 Mt

  Additional Data  
  Depth of Injection Interval 2400 m
  Type of Reservoir Sandstone
  Type of Seal Shale
  Distance Source to Sink Unknown

Method of CO2 Delivery

Unknown

Injected Gas Composition

Unknown

Project Cost

DOE = $67 M; non-DOE = $23.7 M

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