WESTCARB Kimberlina

Project Overview

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.

Major Stakeholders

WESTCARB
California Energy Commission
Clean Energy Systems
Schlumberger

Project Scale

Demonstration.

Project Start Year: 2008

	2010/2014

	Unknown
	0.25 Mt/a
	1 Mt

Project Cost

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

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