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North West Upgrading

Brief description:

North West Upgrading: Read more; Capture Method:
Pre-combustion
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Capital cost:
Financial support:
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--> Volume:
1 200 000 tonnes; 53.712759 -113.213196

Facts:

Main developer: North West Upgrading

Country: Canada

Project type: Capture

Scale: Large

Status: Feed study

Year of operation 2013

Industry: Oil and gas processing

Capture method: Pre-combustion

New or retrofit: New

Transport of CO2 by: Pipeline

Type of storage: EOR

Volume: 1 200 000 tonnes/CO2

http://www.enhanceenergy.com/presentations/Enhance_ACTL_Houston_EOR_presentation.pdf

North West Upgrading Inc. (NWU) and Canadian Natural Resources Limited (Canadian Natural) have an agreement to submit a joint proposal to the Alberta Government to construct and operate a bitumen refinery in Alberta. NWU and Canadian Natural will each own 50% of the partnership, with NWU acting as the operator. The project is located on land approximately 45km north-east of Edmonton, immediately west of Agrium’s Redwater fertilizer operation in Sturgeon County.

The refinery, which is targeted to be built in three identical phases of 50,000 bpd, will be designed to produce finished products from raw bitumen. It represents the world’s first facility with a one step conversion process of bitumen to finished products and an integrated CO₂ management solution. The process incorporates gasification to convert the bottom of the barrel to hydrogen and reduces the need for natural gas. Approximately 3,500 tonnes CO₂ per day will be captured for each of the three targeted phases (1.2 million tonnes per year). CO₂ from the facility will be used for enhanced oil recovery purposes, in the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL) project.

Timing

NWU has already completed a number of important and time-consuming steps, including regulatory approvals, front end engineering and procurement of long lead, crucial equipment. NWU’s facility plans to be fully operational in 2013, with Phases 2 and 3 to follow in sequence.

NWU Schedule

NWU, webside, location and timing, July 2010.

Financing

NWU submitted a tender in January 2010 to the Government of Alberta regarding its bitumen royalty in kind (BRIK) initiativ. Alberta Government gets bitumen share of royalties from Alberta producers.