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Collie South West Hub

Brief description:

Collie South West Hub: Read more; Capture Method:
Post-combustion Pre-combustion
Capture Technology:

Capital cost:
Financial support:
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3.3 million tonnes; -33.359907 116.15258

Facts:

Country: Australia

Project type: Capture Storage

Scale: Large

Objective:

To develop multi-user infrastructure for CO2 capture and storage

Status: Identified

Year of operation 2015

Industry: Coal Power Plant
Chemical products
Other

Capture method: Post-combustion Pre-combustion

Transport of CO2 by: Pipeline

Storage site:

Southern Perth Basin

Type of storage: Aquifers

Volume: 3.3 million tonnes/CO2

Verve Energy's Muja power plant

The Collie South West Hub project has been selected for funding under the Australian government's AU$1.68 billion CCS Flagships Program.

The CCS hub would be sited close to the industrial centres of Kwinana and Collie in Western Australia, and would be part of an integrated multi-user project to sequester CO2 from a number of industries in the area, including coal-fired power plants. The project aims to use pre and post-combustion technologies to capture around 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 per annum, which would be stored in geological formations in the Southern Perth Basin.

The plans have already received state and industry funding. In June 2009, funding for a geosequestration study by Schlumberger was agreed in a Memorandum of Understanding between Western Australia’s Department of Mines & Petroleum and five companies – Verve Energy, BHP Billiton, Griffin Energy, Wesfarmers Premier Coal and Perdaman Chemicals & Fertilisers. Alcoa Australia has since joined the project.

The CCS Flagships Program – part of the $5.1 billion Clean Energy Initiative – chose the Collie hub proposal because of its proximity both to large-scale industrial emitters of CO2 and potentially suitable storage sites. Initial studies identified the Lesueur formation in the Southern Perth Basin as a potential storage site. In early 2012, the Department of Mines and Petroleum begun drilling in Harvey, south of Perth. The work was to involve the collection of data and samples at the Harvey One Well from as deep as three kilometres underground.

In November 2011, Australia's national science agency CSIRO published a literature review as part of the management of basin resources, and of direct relevance to the Collie Hub, CarbonNet and Wandoan CCS projects. This review contains information on identified resources, geological assessments and an analysis of data still required by the three key projects.

Financing

The government is to provide up to AU$52 million to support studies towards the next phase of the project, which includes the completion of a detailed storage viability study.