@inproceedings{d2e5c6de4f0e4bc6b226978e8a9e9d9e,
title = "The path to a successful one-million tonne demonstration of geological sequestration: Characterization, cooperation, and collaboration",
abstract = "The development of the Illinois Basin-Decatur USA test site for a 1 million tonne injection of CO2 into the Mount Simon Sandstone saline reservoir beginning in 2011 has been a multiphase process requiring a wide array of personnel and resources that began in 2003. The process of regional characterization took two years as part of a Phase I effort focused on the entire Illinois Basin, located in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, USA. Seeking the cooperation of an industrial source of CO2 and site selection within the Basin took place during Phase II while most of the concurrent research emphasis was on a set of small-scale tests of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and CO2 injection into a coal seam. Phase III began the commitment to the 1 million-tonne test site development through the collaboration of the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) who is providing a site, the CO2, and developing a compression facility, of Schlumberger Carbon Services who is providing expertise for operations, drilling, geophysics, risk assessment, and reservoir modelling, and of the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) whose geologists and engineers lead the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC). Communications and outreach has been a collaborative effort of ADM, ISGS and Schlumberger Carbon Services. The Consortium is one of the seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships, a carbon sequestration research program supported by the National Energy Technology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy.",
keywords = "Demonstration project, Geological sequestration, Saline reservoir, Teamwork",
author = "Finley, \{Robert J.\} and Greenberg, \{Sallie E.\} and Frailey, \{Scott M.\} and Krapac, \{Ivan G.\} and Leetaru, \{Hannes E.\} and Scott Marsteller",
note = "Funding Information: In an effort such as developing the IBDP, collaboration was required on all levels. A formal framework of contracting and subcontracting was required to engage the required expertise. The research team was assembled from among multiple organizations some of whom had a decades-long history of collaboration (geological surveys in adjacent states), but others were new to such teaming arrangements. DOE contracted with the University of Illinois, the home of the Illinois State Geological Survey, who in turn subcontracted with other geological surveys, university researchers,and organizations inthe private sector. Cost sharerequired byDOE was provided by the surveys as salaries of state-funded researchers, and Illinois provided cash cost share through the Illinois Clean Coal Institute which receives funding from the Illinois Office of Coal Development. The State of Illinois took the position that the development of sequestration science was in the interest of the state as a coal producer with significant remaining coalresources and as a state which has lost mining jobs due to competition fromlower sulphur coal from the western US and from natural gas as fuel for electric generation. Development of carbon sequestration capacity in Illinois was seen as a potential advantage in the development of future clean coal power production projects and this certainly was the case in attracting the FutureGen project, originally an IGCC plant with integral on-site saline reservoir CO2 sequestration. (Now [August 2010] planned as an oxycombustion retrofit, the revised FutureGen 2.0 project is proposed as a 90 percent capture effort with saline reservoir sequestration in the same formation asthe IBDP, the Mount Simon Sandstone.) Three essential elements remained to be added to the university-based research team that initiated the MGSC effort and carried outthe first assessments of Illinois Basin geology First, a site host needed tojointhe team who could provide the storagesite and the CO2, whichas noted above was ADM. For ADM, there was alreadysome familiarity with CO2as acommercial product, since ADM was marketing liquid CO2for upgradingtofoodgrade and for other purposes. ADM engineers were willing to extrapolate their expertise from producing and handling CO2as a liquid tothe development ofa compressionand pipeline facility handlingsupercritical CO2. The MGSC, however, needed to bring additional expertise to the process by engaging additional resources to provide process and chemical engineering expertise. Thus, Trimeric Corporation, an engineering firm with that knowledge worked with ADM to develop process design specifications, solicit and review bids for all major equipment items needed by ADM, design operational procedures and review operational hazards, and carry out inspections on-site as equipment was fabricated into skids for shipment to ADM. The result was a dual four-stage compressor facility with glycol dehydration capable of taking in wet CO2 at atmospheric pressure and delivering dry, supercritical CO2 to the wellhead. Funding Information: The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortiumis funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) via the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program (contract number DE-FC26-05NT42588) and by a cost share agreement with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Office of Coal Development through the Illinois Clean Coal Institute. Funding Information: The development of the Illinois Basin-Decatur USA test site for a 1 million tonne injection of CO2 into the Mount Simon Sandstone saline reservoir beginning in 2011 has been a multiphase process requiring a wide array of personnel and resources that began in 2003. The process of regional characterization took two years as part of a Phase I effort focused on the entire Illinois Basin, located inIllinois, Indiana, and Kentucky,USA. Seekingthe cooperationof an industrial source of CO2and site selection within the Basin took place during Phase II while most of the concurrent research emphasis was on a set of small-scale tests of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and CO2 injection into a coal seam. Phase III began the commitment to the 1 million-tonne test site development through the collaboration of the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) who is providing a site, the CO2, and developing a compression facility, of Schlumberger Carbon Services who is providing expertise for operations, drilling, geophysics, risk assessment, and reservoir modelling, and of the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) whose geologists and engineers lead the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC). Communications and outreach has been a collaborative effort of ADM, ISGS and Schlumberger Carbon Services. The Consortium is one of the seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships, a carbon sequestration research program supported by the National Energy Technology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy.; 2010 International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies ; Conference date: 19-09-2010 Through 23-09-2010",
year = "2011",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.441",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Energy Procedia",
publisher = "Elsevier Ltd",
pages = "4770--4776",
editor = "John Gale and Chris Hendriks and Wim Turkenberg",
booktitle = "10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies",
}