The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP), led by Battelle Memorial Institute, assessing the technical potential, economic viability, and public acceptability of carbon sequestration within its region. The MRCSP consists of seven contiguous states: Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The MRCSP will conduct two or more small-scale CO2 injection field tests in the region’s deep geologic reservoirs to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of geologic sequestration systems. The MRCSP also will conduct small-scale field validation tests of terrestrial sequestration to show how the stored carbon can be measured and monitored and how carbon credits could be traded in voluntary greenhouse gas markets. Another key component of the MRCSP’s
Validation Phase activities will be an innovative “piggyback drilling” program pioneered by Battelle that will allow the Partnership to leverage the ongoing and extensive investments made by local oil and natural gas drilling companies to gather “real world” sequestration-related data, such as core samples from deep geologic formations. The geologic field tests will involve EOR, ECBM, and saline formation sequestration.
Geologic Sequestration Field Validations Tests |
| Candidate Project Description |
Qty of CO2
Injected/
Stored |
Potential Sources of CO2* |
Potential Capacity |
Test Location |
NOTE: At least 2 sites will be selected for injection testing. Additional field activities are planned as listed here and described in more detail in the MRCSP Phase II proposal. |
Candidate Title: Organic Shale Injection Potential in Appalachian Basin |
Explore the potential of organic rich shales to store CO2 through adsorption in Devonian Shale. Opportunities exist for limited field tests and/or focused laboratory analysis. At a minimum, efforts would be made to further characterize shale zones for organic carbon content, sorption properties, and retention potential. |
At least several thousand tons of CO2 will be injected at each injection site with up to 10,000 tons total across all sites in the Phase II demo program |
Various sources of CO2 have been identified across the MRCSP region. |
TBD at end of Phase I |
Big Sandy area along the Kentucky-West Virginia Boarder |
Candidate Title: Deep Saline Formation and EOR
Storage Tests in Eastern Ohio |
Eastern Ohio's active oil and natural gas industry provide opportunities to conduct EOR injection field tests. One potential field is East Canton. The area also holds a number of deep saline formations for CO2 storage including Copper Ridge Dolomite, Rose Run Sandstone, Clinton Sandstone, Lockport Dolomite, and Bass Island Dolomite.
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At least several thousand tons of CO2 will be injected at each injection site with up to 10,000 tons total across all sites in the Phase II demo program |
Various sources of CO2 have been identified across the MRCSP region.
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162,000MT (All saline in region) |
Eastern Ohio Oil and Natural Gas Fields and Saline Formations |
Candidate Title: Mount Simon Saline Reservoir Sequestration Tests |
Involves either an operational power plant or a greenfield site for a potential future power plant. It would be an injection test project in the area of the Mt. Simon Sandstone formation. Alternative injection sites are the Knox Dolomite and Middle Run Formations. |
At least several thousand tons of CO2 will be injected at each injection site with up to 10,000 tons total across all sites in the Phase II demo program |
Various sources of CO2 have been identified across the MRCSP region. |
162,000 MT (All saline in region) |
Down select at Southeast Indiana or Northern Kentucky / Mt. Simon, Knox Dolomite or Middle Run Formations |
| Candidate Title: Michigan Basin Saline Reservoir Sequestration Tests |
Injection test using CO2 from a gas processing plant in the northern part of the Michigan Basin. The injection point will be in the Mt. Simon Sandstone, the Sylvania Sandstone, or Bois Blanc Dolomite Formation. |
At least several thousand tons of CO2 will be injected at each injection site with up to 10,000 tons total across all sites in the Phase II demo program |
Various sources of CO2 have been identified across the MRCSP region. |
162,000MT (All saline in region) |
Gas Processing Location in Michigan Basin / Mt. Simon Sandstone, Sylvania Sandstone, or Bois Blanc Dolomite |
Candidate Title: Appalacian Basin Saline
Reservoir Sequestration Injection |
Opportunity to test an integrated CO2 capture, handling, and injection system in the Appalachian Basin. FirstEnergy would test an enhanced version of the PowerSpan technology (currently used to remove SOx, NOx, and Hg) to capture CO2 from its RE Burger plant in eastern Ohio. The injection zones are likely to be the Berea Sandstone, Oriskany Sandstone, Clinton Sandstone, or high permeability zones in carbonate layers. |
At least several thousand tons of CO2 will be injected at each injection site with up to 10,000 tons total across all sites in the Phase II demo program |
Various sources of CO2 have been identified across the MRCSP region. |
162,000MT (All saline in region) |
Appalachian Basin in Eastern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, or Northern West Virginia / Berea Sandstone, Oriskany Sandstone, Clinton Sandstone, or high permeability zones in carbonate layers. |
Candidate Title: Northern Michigan Basin EOR Tests |
There is ongoing EOR in the Niagaran Pinnacle Reef Trend using CO2 from gas processing plant and would offer an opportunity for an EOR sequestration case study. Other potential opportunities exist in the oil fields in the Dundee Formation. |
At least several thousand tons of CO2 will be injected at each injection site with up to 10,000 tons total across all sites in the Phase II demo program |
Various sources of CO2 have been identified across the MRCSP region. |
470MT (Total depleted oil plays) |
Northern Michigan / Niagaran Pinnacle Reef Trend |
Candidate Title: Injection Tests in Northern Appalachia Basin Sites |
Green County in southwestern Pennsylvania has the potential for injection tests in deep saline formations, including Oriskany and Tuscarora Sandstones and Lockport Dolomite, as well as deep coal seams for enhanced coal bed methane production. In western Maryland injection tests could be located in the Oriskany Sandstone or Mandata Shale also with the potential for enhanced coal bed methane production. |
At least several thousand tons of CO2 will be injected at each injection site with up to 10,000 tons total across all sites in the Phase II demo program |
Various sources of CO2 have been identified across the MRCSP region. |
4,300 MT CO2 (Coal seams and depleted gas basins) |
Southwestern Pennsylvania Western Panhandle Maryland |
| NOTE: * The following facilities are potential CO2 sources: Baard Energy's Ethanol Plant, Babcock and Wilcox Proposed Oxyfuel Combustion Pilot Plant at small city powerplant, DTE Gas processing Plant, First Energy's RE Burger Plant CO2 from planned PowerSpan capture tests, Gas Processing Plants in Northern Michigan, CONSOL Energy gas processing plant, Warrior Run Power Plant. These sources will be matched to the injection tests to make optimal use of resources available at the time of need. |
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