The Alberta Carbon Grid (ACG) is designed to be a world-class carbon transportation and sequestration system which, when fully constructed, will be capable of transporting up to 20 million tonnes of CO2 annually (MTPA) from Alberta’s Industrial Heartland area. This project is a joint venture between Pembina Pipeline and TC Energy. The ACG proposal was confirmed by the Alberta Government in Q1 2022. The appraisal program was approved to move forward in Q3 2022 and is currently in the implementation phase.

The initial subsurface evaluation was undertaken in 2021 to characterize and select an area with the appropriate storage capacity and injectivity, which required a multi-discipline, integrated approach, including geology, geophysics, reservoir engineering, petrophysics, and wells engineering. This initial screening assessment encompassed a large portion (50,000 km2) of the Alberta Industrial Heartland, allowing for multiple potential storage sites to be evaluated simultaneously and providing a basis for the future appraisal and development phases of the project. The stratigraphic interval proposed for the ACG sequestration site is the Cambrian-aged Basal Sandstone Unit (also known as the Basal Cambrian Sandstone, or “BCS”), which is the deepest, brine filled siliciclastic unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. To evaluate this large area for CO2 storage feasibility, one static geomodel covering the entire evaluation area was constructed from the available well data and was then exported for dynamic simulation of CO2 injection across three separate sub-regions.

Appraisal work, focused on one sub-region in the overall project area, is currently underway to address the risks and uncertainties identified during the initial screening. This work includes the licensing, reprocessing and interpretation of an extensive 2D seismic grid, acquisition of two new 2D seismic lines, and the drilling of an appraisal well with a comprehensive logging, coring, fluid sampling, and injection testing program planned.

ACG is planned to be a premier carbon storage solution with several advantages over other projects in the area, including a large areal extent and capacity, relatively shallow BCS for injection, modelled containment of CO2 plume extent, fewer potential leak points from existing well penetrations, and proximity to CO2 sources.

The Saskatchewan Power Corporation (SaskPower) is the principal electric utility in Saskatchewan. We own and operate the worlds first, and currently only, post combustion Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) facility on a coal fired power station. With nearly a decade of direct experience in CCUS, SaskPower is in a unique position to foster growth in this exciting sector and the next generation of CCUS projects. As this project was the first of its kind, it has not unexpectedly experienced challenges through its early stages of operating life. SaskPower plans to present some of the key issues that this facility has experienced, and ways it has overcome these obstacles to advance the facility to the high level of reliability and carbon capture efficiency that it is experiencing today. It is through this open collaboration and sharing of knowledge and experience that we hope to aid in the future success for new CCUS projects. Additionally, the power generation landscape in Canada is changing rapidly, and SaskPower is changing along with it. We plan to provide an update on the unique challenges faced in Saskatchewan, and on the potential for new CCUS projects that it brings. We are currently entering into a new phase of design and analysis to investigate the integration of CCUS onto our existing Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power facilities and designing future units which focus on CCUS integration and process efficiency.

60% of the world’s CO2 emissions come from generating electricity and making things. These large industrial sites must necessarily decarbonize if we are to reach our collective climate targets. Fortunately, organizations across value chains are now scrambling to deliver products and services for cutting emissions at these sites. And the question they ask themselves is this: how do we focus on the projects that matter the most, accelerating the adoption of our sustainable technologies and solutions? To answer that question, they need tools for slicing, sorting and filtering data about thousands of different facilities around the world to narrow it down to their best decarbonization opportunities. This takes facility-level data. Endrava has developed in CaptureMap what is likely the world’s best facility level database of CO2 emitters with more than 15 000 sites in 156 countries and nearly 16 billion tons of annual CO2 emissions. But this is not enough. Stakeholders will argue that alongside facility-level CO2 information, it is also of high importance to understand how far along in the decarbonization journey a given facility has come. That’s because a given provider typically has a limited window in which their offering can be included in the decarbonization project. Once again, timing is everything. To this end, several CCUS projects databases already exist. Yet, they are often outdated, limited in transparency and/or geographical scope, while at the same time rarely in a format that allows the user to effectively narrow down their search for new opportunities. At this conference, we want to launch our next step: a premium-quality global CCUS projects database based on public data and integrated with our facility-level overview in CaptureMap. Our presentation will take the participants through several topics: The problems with today’s projects databases (selective in coverage, limited transparency, manual work to update and hence often outdated, not integrated with other facility-level info useful to product and service providers) Key aspects that a project database should include, and how to separate between need-to-have and nice-to-have information Making it work, based on public data, programming and a touch of automation Seeing results in the updated version of CaptureMap. Combining facility-level CO2 data with CCUS project status about creating something greater than the sum of its parts. Together they identify pockets of maturity for decarbonization, paving the way for other sites nearby to join forces and follow fast in their footsteps. Join us at this conference to learn more about how Endrava's CaptureMap is transforming the way the industry approaches decarbonization projects, one facility at a time.

As organizations continue to explore and invest in Carbon Management challenges and opportunities, they are often still trapped on a sustainability reporting hamster wheel. As emissions reporting historically was a cost center to minimize, little has been invested in creating long term data and reporting infrastructure. This leaves environmental and sustainability leaders scrambling to keep up with the ever-growing reporting, and now verification and auditing requirements. The reporting cycles end with a look back, but with little time to look forward. As the carbon market continues to develop and evolve, organizations need a fundamentals-based bottom-up approach to managing their Regulatory, ESG, Production Standards, Credit and Offset generation protocols and reporting requirements. Developing Carbon Sequestration Hubs is a team sport and integral to being agile and adaptive to the growing and changing needs is creating an open and inclusive ecosystem that allows for data to be gathered, consolidated, contextualized, and then shared with various stakeholders, applications, and partners. This needs to be achieved while not compromising cybersecurity, data integrity and auditability. As verification and transparency are paramount, the assurance of the integrity and quality of the data has become as important as the reporting itself. This presentation will explore the challenges posed by the MMV (Measure, Monitor, Verify) requirements of the full lifecycle of Carbon Management projects, and show how to efficiently manage data generated from field devices to satisfy regulatory requirements while ensuring deep operational insights.

Solvent losses is a critical parameter when designing a Post Combustion Capture (PCC) unit. Apart from operating cost impact, emissions of solvent including degradation products from CO2 capture unit poses considerable risk to the environment. The chemical composition of the emissions depends on flue gas characteristic, solvent type and operational conditions of the unit. Carry-over of certain contaminants may trigger formation of aerosols, enhancing the effect of solvent losses and leading to higher emission limits set by the current regulations. Conventional approach is to install a water backwash or acid wash (optional) section at the top of the absorber to minimize emission of volatile solvent component. However, aerosols formation triggered by sub-micron/ultrafine particulates requires a different approach. Therefore, this session aims to summarize the achievements of testing program and operational experience on emission formation and different emission reduction measures using real power plant operating conditions. The collaborative development effort of BASF, Linde Engineering and RWE Power employing OASE® blue technology has proved that two highly efficient techniques are proven to address aerosol-triggered emission conditions: flue gas pre-treatment and OASE® aerozone (patented dry bed configuration in OASE® blue technology). Both arrangements have the advantage of not producing additional waste, simplifying design complexity for a PCC installation.