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CCS world projects: PCOR Lignite

The PCOR Partnership is conducting a multiyear field validation test of CO2 sequestration in an unmineable lignite seam in Burke County in north-western North Dakota. The Lignite Field Validation Test is one of four CO2 sequestration validation projects the Plain CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership has planned for Phase II, the Validation Phase. The PCOR Partnership’s Lignite Field Validation Test is designed to develop the protocols needed to define the capacity of lignites to sequester anthropogenic CO2 as well as to investigate the potential for CBM production from deep, unmineable lignite seams that occur in North Dakota and the surrounding PCOR Partnership region. The knowledge gained during this field validation test is expected to have implications for planning and implementing similar value-added CO2 sequestration operations as well as providing information regarding the potential regional CBM resource base. 82 t of CO2 were injected into the Harmon Coal in the Fort Union Formation.

Project Type

Storage

Location

Burke County, North Dakota, U.S.A

Type of CO2 Storage Operation

Enhanced Coal Bed Methane depleted gas field

Major Stakeholders

PCOR

Project Scale

Micro Pilot Test Project

Project Start Year: unknown

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2009

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approx daily Unknown
approx annual Unknown
total sequestration 0.36 kt

  Additional Data  
  Depth of Injection Interval 500 m
  Type of Reservoir Coal
  Type of Seal Unknown
  Distance Source to Sink Unknown

Method of CO 2 delivery

Unknown

Injected Gas Composition

Unknown

Project Cost

US$2.829 M Public;
US$1.768 M Private

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