New carbon solution in Alberta delivers use for industrial emissions
World’s largest capacity CO2 pipeline part of expandable capture and storage system
Alberta – June 2, 2020 – A new system built to safely transport and permanently store CO2 is
shifting how carbon is managed in the province. The Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL) system,
the world’s newest large-scale carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) project, is now
fully operational.
The ACTL system captures industrial emissions and delivers the CO2 to mature oil and gas
reservoirs in Central Alberta for use in enhanced oil recovery and permanent storage.
The current supply of CO2 is captured at the North West Redwater Partnership (NWR) Sturgeon
Refinery and Nutrien’s Redwater Fertilizer Facility, offering a sustainable emissions solution for
energy and agriculture sectors. The CO2 then travels down a 240-kilometre pipeline, which is
owned by Wolf Midstream, to a storage reservoir owned by Enhance Energy.
The system includes the world’s largest capacity pipeline for CO2 from human activity, capable of
transporting up to 14.6 million tonnes of CO2 per year. This is equal to the impact of capturing the
CO2 from more than 2.6 million cars in Alberta. Designed with excess capacity, the system will
connect more facilities and storage reservoirs in the future as demand increases for an effective
solution to manage emissions.
“This is just the beginning,” said Jeff Pearson, President of Wolf Midstream’s Carbon Business
Unit. “This critical piece of infrastructure supports significant future emissions solutions, new
utilization pathways and innovation in the carbon capture space. The future of energy and a lower
carbon economy relies on key infrastructure like the ACTL.”
“This will change how business is done in Alberta,” said Kevin Jabusch, CEO of Enhance Energy,
which is injecting CO2 from the ACTL into oil fields near Clive, Alberta. “We are putting CO2 to
use. We permanently keep CO2 out of the environment, while producing low-carbon energy. Not
only are we reinvigorating our rural energy economy at a time when it is needed most, but we are
playing a key role in advancing a sustainable solution to global energy requirements.”
“The Sturgeon Refinery made a bold decision over 15 years ago to incorporate carbon capture
into its design,” said Kerry Margetts, President, NWR Sturgeon Refinery, “Our founders believed
then, as we are proving today, that carbon capture was our environmental competitive advantage
to producing a low carbon intensity diesel from Alberta’s bitumen resources.”
The ACTL system marks an important milestone project on the path for Alberta and Canada to
effectively manage carbon emissions and support a cleaner global energy future.
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