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 
Major Stakeholders
WESTCARB
California Energy Commission
Clean Energy Systems
Schlumberger
Project Scale
Demonstration
Project Start Year: 2008
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0.25 Mt/a |
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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
