Navigator CO2 Ventures announced last Friday (10/20) the cancelation of its Heartland Greenway pipeline project. The approx. 1,300-mi CO2 pipeline project aimed to capture as much at 15 MMpta of carbon dioxide from Ethanol producers and other industrial customers in the upper Midwest. The footprint planned to span 5 states: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota. Ultimately the captured carbon dioxide was to be sequestered underground near Decatur, IL.
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Valero Joins Midwest Carbon Express Carbon-Capture Project
Midwest Carbon Express, a carbon-capture project under development by Summit Carbon Solutions, has added Valero as a shipper on its CO2 pipeline, the companies announced March 4.
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Way Down in the Hole, Part 8 - Trio of Projects Target Carbon Capture from Midwest Ethanol Plants
Carbon-capture projects have been slow to take root in the U.S., but that may be changing as a number of companies are now advancing plans to capture the carbon dioxide that results from ethanol production in the Midwest. Ethanol plants are an obvious choice, given that the CO2 resulting from ethanol fermentation is highly concentrated, which makes capturing it more efficient (and less expensive) compared to many other industrial processes. But while the relative ease and economy of capturing those emissions might seem like a no-brainer, convincing the public to go along with those plans has been more difficult. In today’s RBN blog, we look at what’s being planned.
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End Game - Targeted Approach Could be Key to Success for Carbon-Capture Pipeline Projects
It’s been a tough couple of months for developers of large-scale, multi-state carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects, which have been stung by widespread public opposition and often hamstrung by state and local regulations. But while those factors helped lead one developer to pull the plug on its project and another to push back its schedule by a couple of years, that’s not to say there isn’t a path forward for some projects. In today’s RBN blog, we examine why Wolf Carbon Solutions’ targeted approach and a pipeline conversion by Tallgrass Energy could be the most likely CCS projects to reach operational status.
