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Blue Source and Summit Texas Clean Energy partner for carbon capture project
NewNet - New Energy World Network - October 27, 2009

27th October 2009

Power developer Summit Texas Clean Energy, a Summit Power Group company, has reached an agreement with emissions reduction project developer Blue Source, to market nearly three million tons of CO2 to be captured annually from Summit’s West Texas power project.

Construction of Summit’s 400MW Texas Clean Energy Project, dubbed a NowGen plant by national environmental group the Clean Air Task Force, will begin in 2010. The project is the first of its kind integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) project and will be located in Penwell, Texas.

The project is designed to achieve a 90 per cent capture rate and related carbon capture and storage efforts (CCS), managed by Blue Source, will focus on meeting the demand for reliable sources of CO2 for use in enhanced oil recovery in West Texas’ Permian Basin. In enhanced oil recovery, the captured CO2 is transported and permanently sequestered in mature oil fields.

Siemens is the primary provider for the project’s gasifiers, power island and controls, designed by Fluor. Under the new agreement, Blue Source will market the project’s captured CO2 and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

Blue Source executive vice-president Russell Martin said, ‘This project has significant potential as a model in the voluntary emissions reduction market. We anticipate tremendous demand from oil producers to purchase the captured CO2, and we are confident of our ability to sell it all. We will, of course, preserve other CCS options as well.’

For more than 30 years, oil producers have used naturally-occurring, underground CO2 at the Permian Basin that is pressurised, piped to Texas, and injected into depleted oil wells to generate new oil production.

Summit develop low carbon power projects, specialising in high-efficiency natural gas-fired projects, wind power projects, and coal gasification projects with carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions.

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