Zerogen

Project Overview

ZeroGen is a joint State Government/coal industry project to build a commercial scale 530MW (gross) IGCC plant with up to 90 per cent CCS. Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have joined the project, with MHI to provide ZeroGen with both the IGCC and carbon capture technologies. Prefeasibility and feasibility studies are expected to be completed by September 2011 enabling construction to commence in 2012 and commissioning late 2015.

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Project Type

Capture & Storage

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Location

Northern Denison Trough, Queensland, Australia

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Type of CO2 Storage Operation

Onshore saline aquifer depleted gas field

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Major Stakeholders

Stanwell Corporation
Queensland Government
Shell
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Uhde
MBA Petroleum Consultants
Resource Land Management Services
Upstream Petroleum
GE Energy

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Project Scale

Commercial

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Project Start Year: 2006

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2015

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approx daily Unknown
approx annual 420 kt/a
total sequestration 4 Mt

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  Additional Data  
  Depth of Injection Interval (average) 2000 m
  Type of Reservoir Unknown
  Type of Seal Unknown
  Distance Source to Sink 220 km

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Method of CO2 Delivery

Pipeline

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Injected Gas Composition

Unknown

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Project Cost

$800M

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