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DOE OSTI2013

Completed Drilling Permit (SECARB Phase III Work Product 3.2.6.a)

The Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership’s (SECARB’s) Anthropogenic Test is a demonstration of the deployment of CO 2 capture, transport, geologic storage, and monitoring technologies. The capture component of the test takes place at the James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant in Bucks, Alabama. The capture facility utilizes post-combustion amine capture technology licensed from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America to process flue gas from a coal-fired power unit at Plant Barry. The amount of CO 2 captured using this process is equivalent to the emissions produced when generating 25 megawatts (MW) of electricity. CO 2 captured at the plant is transported by pipeline for underground storage in a saline geologic formation within the Citronelle Dome. This project is one of the first and the largest fully-integrated commercial prototype coal-fired carbon capture and storage projects in the USA.

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DOE OSTI2021

Manufacture of Carbon Foam in Continuous Process at Atmospheric Pressure

CFOAM LLC has been manufacturing CFOAM® vitreous carbon foam from coal in panel form for several years. The process is currently set up in batch mode as two steps, where the first step is conducted at very high pressure. In order to reduce cost and increase capacity, a new process for making carbon foam is being developed that can be performed at atmospheric pressure. This advance in turn would enable the development of a continuous manufacturing process, which is also being pursued. Both carbon foam panels and light weight aggregates are being investigate. Progress on the evolution of the pilot scale manufacturing plant and initial results of processing, microstructure, properties and performance of carbon foam products made using this new process will be discussed. This project is being supported by a cooperative agreement with the Department of Energy – National Energy Technology Laboratory (DE-FOA-0002185, Area of Interest 4: Coal-Derived Carbon Foam Produced via a Continuous Process, award number DE-FE-0031992).

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DOE OSTI2010

Initial Report on Reservoir Modeling (SECARB Phase III Work Product 4.2.4.b)

The SECARB Partnership Anthropogenic Test, located in the Southeast Unit of the Citronelle oilfield will inject CO 2 into the saline waters of the Cretaceous Paluxy sandstone formation for three to four years. In order to accurately model the injection, migration, and long-term fate of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in the subsurface, GEM-GHG, a Computer Modeling Group software program for reservoir simulation and transport modeling was selected for the simulation. GEM-GHG is a very robust compositional reservoir simulator, with all the necessary options available for modeling CO 2 trapping mechanisms (including solubility, residual gas and mineralization). This simulation tool is widely known and used in the petroleum and sequestration industries. A reservoir model was built, based on a previously developed comprehensive picture of the subsurface geology at the site (Work Product 4.2.1.d - Report on Subsurface Characterization for the Anthropogenic Test Project Site). This report describes in details the different inputs that were used to create the model as well as the results of the injection scenario in terms of achievable injection rates, plume extension and pressure response.

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DOE OSTI2014

Final Report on Reservoir Modeling (SECARB Phase III Work Product 4.2.4.c)

The SECARB Partnership Anthropogenic Test, located in the Southeast Unit of the Citronelle oilfield will inject CO 2 into the saline waters of the Cretaceous Paluxy sandstone formation for three years. In order to accurately model the injection, migration, and long-term fate of CO 2 in the subsurface, GEM, a Computer Modeling Group software program for transport and geochemical modeling, was selected for the simulation. GEM is a very robust compositional reservoir simulator, with all the necessary options available for modeling CO 2 trapping mechanisms (including solubility, residual gas and mineralization). This simulation tool is widely known and used in the petroleum and sequestration industries. A reservoir model was built, based on a previously developed comprehensive picture of the subsurface geology at the site (Work Product 4.2.1.d - Report on Subsurface Characterization for the Anthropogenic Test Project Site). This report describes in details the different inputs that were used to create the model as well as the results of the injection scenario in terms of achievable injection rates, plume extent and pressure response.

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DOE OSTI2010

Develop Safety Plan for Installation and Operation of the Observation Wells (SECARB Phase III Task 3.1.3a [Early] Project at Cranfield)

Sandia Technologies developed and deployed a worker health and safety plan for the CFU31_F2 and CFU 31F3 observation wells, covering the SECARB activities following drilling the wells to total depth. The purpose of this health and safety plan (HASP) is to assign responsibilities, establish personnel protection standards, specify safe operating procedures, and provide for contingencies that may arise during the Cranfield Phase III Monitor Well installation. This HASP has been developed in accordance with Sandia Technologies, LLC (Sandia) safety and health standard operating procedures. Specific programs and procedures, as required by site activities, are identified herein.

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DOE OSTI2011

Injection Well Construction Diagrams and Specifications (SECARB Work Product 5.2.1.b)

This report discusses the Anthropogenic Test’s Injection Wells (D-9-7#2 and D-9- 9#2) design and construction specifications. The report includes sections on: Drilling and casing program, Drilling fluids, Coring, Completion program, Logging and testing program, Drilling prognosis, Well closure and post-closure care plans. The injection wells have been designed to meet or exceed the Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s (ADEM) Class V Underground Injection Control (UIC) standards including those designed to protect underground sources of drinking water.

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DOE OSTI2014

Drill and Complete CO 2 Observation Wells (SECARB Work Product 5.2.2.b)

The following report contains details on the drilling and completion of the new wells D-9-8#2 and D-9-9#2, as well as the recompletion work for the previously temporarily abandoned D-4-13 and D-4-14 wells. Each of the four wells will be used for observation activities for the SECARB Phase III Anthropogenic Test. A drilling and completion narrative and an as built description of the well including drawings and material specifications for the D-9- 8#2 and D-9-9#2 are outlined in this report. An outline of the recompletion procedure for the D-4-13 and D-4-14 wells is also included.

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DOE OSTI2011

Install or Extend Additional Infrastructure (SECARB Work Product 6.1.b)

Infrastructure needs at the SECARB “early” Cranfield test are different from many other CCS sites, because this test is strongly supported by the commercial activities of site host Denbury Onshore LLC. Commercial development by Denbury provided the substantive cost-share required to make the project viable. Denbury contributions fundamental for the project included the retrofit of the former Sonat natural gas pipeline from the Jackson Dome CO 2 source to the center of Cranfield Field, construction of distributory pipelines to take CO 2 to injection wells, and construction of roads and well pads that allowed access for drilling and maintenance of injection wells. In addition, as part of the EOR operations, Denbury constructed a CO 2 separation plant to increase pressure from pipeline pressure to field pressure and support CO 2 recycle, construction of production lines to bring oil, water, CO 2 and gas to the separation plant, and worked over plugged and abandoned (P&A) wells to retrofit them as producers. Producers were used by the SECARB project as monitoring points to observe flood. Denbury’s well test facility allowed monthly quantification of the volumes of fluids produced and reinjected.

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DOE OSTI2014

Decision Point on Anthropogenic Test (SECARB Work Product 6.2.1.a)

The Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership’s (SECARB’s) Anthropogenic Test is a demonstration of the deployment of CO 2 capture, transport, geologic storage and monitoring technologies. The capture component of the test takes place at the James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant in Bucks, Alabama. The capture facility utilizes post-combustion amine capture technology licensed from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America to process flue gas from a coal-fired power unit at Plant Barry. The amount of CO 2 captured using this process is equivalent to the emissions produced when generating 25 megawatts (MW) of electricity. CO 2 captured at the plant is transported by pipeline for underground storage in a saline geologic formation within the Citronelle Dome. This project is one of the first and the largest fully-integrated commercial prototype coal-fired carbon capture and storage projects in the USA.

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DOE OSTI2013

Site Design and Layout In Preparation for the Anthropogenic Test (SECARB Work Product 6.2.1.b)

Commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology deployment for the electrical utility industry will require a robust international R&D program with governmental support both in cost-share and in risk management. In an effort to comply with environmental legislation or regulation related to CO 2 , the electrical utility industry hopes to be in a position to make financial decisions on utility boiler sourced CCS technology and associated risk management by 2020.

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DOE OSTI2021

Staged OMB for Modular Gasifier/Burner

The goal of this final project report is to comprehensively summarize the work conducted on project DE-FE0031506. In accordance with the Statement of Project Objectives (SOPO), the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER) (Recipient) has developed a staged opposed multi-burner (OMB) gasifier, scaled down from a commercial gasification technology to utilize coal slurry as feed for the high-temperature gasification. The project involved the design, fabrication, commissioning, parametric testing, and performance validation of the entrained gasifier with multiple burners to narrow the major near-term technical gaps that impede the application of small-size gasification by modularizing the system. Project results verified the UK CAER approach to address the major technical challenges on the gasification modularization for a distributed application at a small scale of 1-5 MWe, while maintaining advantages in cost and flexibility, which include: 1) a cost-effective burner configuration to provide high flexibility in both load and fuel feed; 2) the modularized staged-OMB to provide better gasification performance such as a desired temperature profile, better fuel conversion, better gasification efficiency, and long lifetimes of the refractory wall and burners; and 3) load control simply through changing the number of burners firing. UK CAER’s staged gasifier configuration, fuel blend performance, and economic evaluation shows promise, as summarized in this report, as an effective means for improved gasification efficiency with reduced operation cost and process complexity.

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DOE OSTI2014

Transportation Design and Products Specification (SECARB Phase III Work Product 6.2.2.a)

The SECARB Anthropogenic Test at the Citronelle oil field in Mobile County, Alabama is the largest fully integrated coal-fired carbon capture, transportation and storage project in the United States. Constructed and funded by Southern Company and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the CO 2 capture facility at Alabama Power’s 2,657-megawatt Plant Barry captures up to 500 metric tons of CO 2 per day, the equivalent emissions from 25 MW of the plant’s power generation. Captured CO 2 is transported to the mature Citronelle oil field atop a 16,380 acre (66.3 km2 of surface area), geologic salt dome. Citronelle oil field is operated by Denbury Onshore, LLC. The CO 2 is injected through ten perforated intervals in the injection well casing at depths ranging from 9,436 ft to 9,800 ft into the porous and permeable sandstones of the Paluxy Formation. This report describes the transportation design and product specifications for captured CO 2 transported from the capture facility to the underground storage reservoir. CO 2 is transported through approximately 12 miles of pipeline from Plant Barry’s capture facility and is injected into the saline aquifer sandstones of the Paluxy formation at Citronelle oil field. The following outlines the details and characteristics of each point of transportation and the quality of CO 2 being transported.

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DOE OSTI2011

CO 2 Injection and Recycle (SECARB Phase III Work Product 7.1.b)

During Cranfield Phase II and Phase III, over an elapsed period of more than three years between July 14, 2008, and August 31, 2011, 3,100,340 metric tons of CO 2 were injected and have accumulated (are stored) in the lower Tuscaloosa Formation as a result of injection. Exceeding the planned 1 million ton/year rate for 1½ year was possible because the project is piggy-backed on a commercial EOR project. The stored volume at elevated pressure has allowed the SECARB team to test a variety of monitoring approaches; these are documented in other SECARB reports and publications. The reported mass stored has been corrected so that it does not include methane impurities or double-count CO 2 produced and recycled. The methods of correction and other accounting strategies are reviewed and described based on the data typically available in a commercial EOR project. As a relevant test case, the SECARB accounting protocol has separated the injected, produced and stored volume into the east and west compartments of the field; the techniques demonstrated can be used in many other ways. Evaluation of the distribution of the CO 2 within the field (for example water leg vs. in the oilfield or gas cap or free-phase CO 2 vs. CO 2 dissolved in brine and oil) will be completed via history matching models with monitoring data in future reports. Assessment of conformance data has not identified any out-of zone CO 2 leakage; this evidence will be discussed in other reports. Assessment of surface release to atmosphere from surface infrastructure was outside of the scope of this study; we assume in this accounting that it is negligible, and less than other sources of accounting error. This milestone report also completes the request for an explanation of accounting during recycle.

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DOE OSTI2013

CO 2 Procurement Plan and Agreement (SECARB Phase III Work Product 7.2.1.a)

The Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership’s (SECARB) Anthropogenic Test is a demonstration of the deployment of CO 2 capture, transport, geologic storage and monitoring technologies. The capture component of the test takes place at the James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant in Bucks, Alabama. The capture facility utilizes post-combustion amine capture technology licensed from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America to process flue gas from a coal-fired power unit at Plant Barry. The amount of CO 2 captured using this process is equivalent to the emissions produced when generating 25 megawatts (MW) of electricity. CO 2 captured at the plant is transported by pipeline for underground storage in a saline geologic formation within the Citronelle Dome. This project is one of the first and the largest fully-integrated commercial prototype coal-fired carbon capture and storage projects in the US. This report will highlight the essential pieces necessary to bring CO 2 from the capture facility at Plant Barry to the Anthropogenic Test Site. They are: 1) the capture facility, 2) the pipeline and 3) the well site injection equipment.

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