Carbon-capture projects have begun to pick up steam in recent months, especially in the Midwest and Great Plains, with three major developments already taking shape and the potential for more. At the same time, the need to move natural gas east from the Rockies has declined over time and Tallgrass Energy Partners — a leading midstream player in that space — is looking for ways to make fuller use of its Rockies Express and Trailblazer gas pipelines. In today’s RBN blog, we look at an agreement between Tallgrass and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) to capture and sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a corn-processing complex in Nebraska, how that deal relies on the planned conversion of the Trailblazer Pipeline from natural gas to CO2, thought to be the first of this scale, and why Tallgrass sees potential in carbon-capture projects across the region.
RBN Energy’s US CO₂ Infrastructure map brings together legacy Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) assets, as well as announced large-scale Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) projects, all in our signature concise, accurate, and intelligible style.
Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) has been a popular topic in RBN’s blogs in recent months, as our Way Down in the Hole series has covered everything from the basics of CCS and the 45Q tax credit to different types of carbon-capture projects, and from the Houston CCS Innovation Zone to direct air capture. More recently, we’ve turned our attention to ethanol production, a significant contributor to CO2 emissions but one with more than its share of carbon-capture opportunities.
Pipeline Conversion
Tallgrass said May 18 that it had entered into an agreement with ADM that would pave the way for Tallgrass to capture CO2 from ADM’s corn-processing complex in Columbus, NE (yellow star in Figure 1), and transport it to Tallgrass’s planned Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub (orange oval) for permanent underground storage. Later that month, Tallgrass filed for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval to abandon 392 miles of its Trailblazer (pink line) from natural gas service in order to convert that segment to CO2 transportation service. The repurposed pipeline, which runs through Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska, would be capable of transporting more than 10 million tons per annum (MMtpa, 528 MMcf/d) of CO2 to a sequestration hub for permanent storage. Tallgrass believes it to be the first pipeline conversion of this scale in the U.S.
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About the song
“Two Birds, One Stone” was written by Drake, Kanye West, Noah Shebib and Joey Castellini. It was released as a single in October 2016 as a promotional/teaser single for Drake’s fifth mixtape, More Life, which was released in March 2017. The song went to #31 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and #73 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles charts. Written in the wake of Drake’s highly publicized feud with Meek Mill, the song clearly disses Kid Cudi and Pusha T. While Drake and Kanye West were touring during 2016, Kid Cudi was in the midst of breaking away from West’s record label and criticized both West and Drake on his Twitter account. “Two Birds, One Stone” samples Cudi’s song, “Wild’n Cuz I’m Young,” further fueling the diss factor from Drake to Cudi. Personnel on the record were: Drake (vocals), Kanye West, 40 (production, sampling).
Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham) is a Canadian rapper, singer and actor. He got his start starring as Jimmy Brooks in the CTV teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation. Drake released his first mixtape, Room for Improvement, in 2006, and has been credited for helping to popularize R&B vocal stylings within hip-hop music. He has released six studio albums, four EPs, three compilation albums, seven mixtapes, and 139 singles. He has sold over 170 million records worldwide. The Recording Industry Association of America ranks him as the top-selling digital artist of all time, with over 163 million digital downloads in the U.S. Drake has appeared in 10 motion pictures and 19 television shows. In 2022 Universal Music Group announced that Drake had re-signed with the company in a deal rumored to be valued as high as $400 million. He continues to record and tour.
