What’s a drilling rig doing southeast of Moose Jaw? Drilling a CO2 sequestration well, naturally
And what are going to use that CO2 for, pray tell? Producing more oil, baby! (Well, not the stuff that’s going into this well, but all the CO2 that’s going to go in the pipeline past it. You’ll have to read the story to understand.)
Canada steadfast on climate plan despite Trump re-election: Guilbeault
Good thing oil companies can make money in spike of Guilbeault.
Suncor Energy earnings rise to $2.02 billion in third quarter
Can they just drill a Liberal sequestration well? I recommend pushing the cabinet right down to the 7″.
Made my morning, Peter
Thanks CRB, kind of puts a new spin on “toolpusher”.
Drilling wells to push carbon dioxide into the earth sounds like a Keynesian’s wet dream. It’s the equivalent of paying someone to dig a hole and someone else to fill it in,
The leftists always cling to something that cannot be seen, smelled, or otherwise detected by humans. Such as co2 … or the giant swirling plastic patch the size of “Texas” in the Pacific Ocean … giving rise to “microplastics” that are “killing every living entity on the planet”.
Why demonize and monetize invisible things that cannot be traced to any real harm whatsoever? You do the math. And the math is Uuuge.
It is quite an insane idea, rather suits the current metal environment these days.
This is a complete waste of time & money. Oceans absorb CO2 from our atmosphere, convert it to carbonic acid (for a microsecond), and then buffer it into bicarbonate. And a whole host of marine organisms (corals, mollusks, bivalves, and foraminifera plankton, etc.) use/need bicarbonate to make their shells of CaCO3. So the vast deposits of limestone throughout the world are literally ginormous deposits of CO2 removed from our atmosphere and sequestered by marine organisms. Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore guesstimates that carbonates make up ~8% by weight of the Earth’s crust, which works out to be ~100 million, billion tons. Given that shelled organisms evolved ~500 million years ago, and a lb. of shells/coral contains (on avg) ~0.45 lbs. of CO2, that means that each year for the past 550 million years, shelled marine organisms have removed an average of ~82 million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, and sequestered it as limestone. And ‘Ocean Acidification’ is just a fear porn, climate science lie. The mass of the oceans is ~270X the mass of the atmosphere! And at 0.04% of our atmosphere, there simply is not enough CO2 to lower the pH of the oceans to 7 or lower.
Yes, and a new study proved that plants absorb 30% more than previously thought, while oceans absorb 20% more than previously thought.
Greed by another name. Absolutely retarded.
Go ahead Mr.Guilbeault.Commit suicide.See if you get re-elected. Canada continuing to struggle to meet “climate goals” in the light of Trump’s plans is very, very stupid.
I have yet to see any cost/benefit analysis of using captured CO2 to increase yields.
I’m betting that the costs associated with its capture and use outweigh the increased yield, thus increasing cost/barrel of crude.
Someone will put money in their pockets.
Climate is not a problem and neither is CO2.
This scheme only makes sense in the Bizarro world of “putting a price on carbon (dioxide)”. It is only the anti-scientific scam of AGW that artificially imposes costs on CO2, and the criminals in gov’t deciding on the credit system that makes this kind of project economical.
Throw out the BS related to the AGW scam and this is a ridiculously expensive project to recover additional oil when there is no shortage of other materials that are far cheaper and available to accomplish the same result.
Watto …. what is your “when there is no shortage of other materials that are far cheaper” that is cheaper and as effective as CO2 miscible floods?
I think you are wrong …. very, very wrong.
CO2 works like a hot damn to get the oil left behind.
Miscible CO2 flooding is an enhanced oil recovery technique that involves injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) into an oil reservoir. Key points about this process include123:
CO2 can dissolve and blend with the produced hydrocarbon due to its miscibility.
Below its minimum miscibility pressure (MMP), CO2 acts as an immiscible solvent, reducing interfacial tension, swelling the reservoir oil, and reducing viscosity.
The process involves complex phase behavior, depending on temperature, pressure, and fluid properties.
CO2 increases oil recovery by oil swelling, viscosity reduction, and miscibility effects.
Water?
Still waiting on that cost/benefit analysis of using captured CO2.
Do they again recapture the CO2 after using it to enhance the yield? How much does that cost? Is all this extra infrastructure paying dividends or just eating money? My guess is the latter.
Yeahwell …. so you know all about the economics of a CO2 miscible flood but you have never worked for an oil company and actually run economics on using it on an oil field.
You must be one clever fellow 😉
AND YES THE CO2 IS CAPTURED AND RECYCLED ie RE-INJECTED
And yes I worked on the Steelman Midale Units well working at Sceptre and then CNRL / Canadian Natural.
Well then, I expect that cost/benefit analysis I’ve been asking for since Zinchuk started waxing poetic about the tech over a year ago will be forthcoming.
Right?
RIGHT?
Unlike you, I don’t just take the greenies word that CO2 capture is the bee’s knees.
There is no shortage of techniques for enhancing oil recovery, and although total additional recoverable oil is the key numerator, the denominator is comprised of “what it costs”.
One can do waterflood operations, gas injection, C3+ injection, miscible floods, etc. But by monkeying with the actual costs of CO2, the economics can be whatever they need to be to make CO2 artificially cheap. But the real costs remain the same as they always were – just who pays for it changes.
The cost of building up a CO2 network has previously been estimated at more than the historical revenue of oil and gas in the WCSB.
I’m not arguing the science, just the Keynesianism, which should NEVER be used as the basis of any business decision.
This is the industrial rent seeking complex in action. Anything beyond enhanced recovery is a waste of taxpayer and shareholder resources. Whitecap’s stock has been essentially flat for the last three years.
Exactly.
It boils down to, “this is the least bad of the many moronic ways to waste resources based on the hostile federal government’s industry-attacking dictates, using the anti-scientific fraud of AGW as the excuse”.
Any acknowledgement of this fraud is a capitulation to idiocy, and making the least stupid decision doesn’t detract from it still being a stupid decision.
The ONLY correct response would be to declare that AGW is a lie and ignore any and all federal pronouncements using it as a pretext for action.
+++W
I worked out once that all the CO2 in the atmosphere is the equivalent of 10 mount Rundles for scale. Its a Fermi estimate. I think accurate to one order of magnitude. All the oil in the world. Reserve wise would only fill lake Ontario. If you burned it all in an instant on the bottom of the pacific. You can’t raise the temperature 0.5 degrees. All the daily production of oil is the flow of the bow river in June.
The article says that as of 2023, the Aquistore well has sequestered 500,000 tonnes of CO2.
By my calculations, that is a block of CO2, at a pressure of one atmosphere, one mile by one mile by 343 feet deep. Mind you, that’s pure CO2, and if we spread it out to the .04% of atmosphere, we store the CO2 from about 25.5 cubic miles of atmosphere.
Now, if we plot that on a map, it involves a block of air a bit bigger than 6 miles by 4 miles by one mile deep. On Canada’s map, that is a very tiny chip. Even if we just store enough CO2 to reduce the atmospheric level to .03%, in just that tiny chip, that chip gets about four times bigger. Four times tiny is still tiny.
We will need a lot of those wells, and it won’t make any difference anyway, with Asian countries building more and more fossil-fueled powerplants. The atmosphere moves over the whole earth and brings us China’s and India’s CO2.
We need more CO2 in the atmosphere. It really is that simple.
This is one of the reasons why, despite begin a software engineer, I am opposed to all forms of subsidies, tax credits, R&D incentives, etc. for the tech industry. It distorts the market and redirects valuable time and labour into rent-seeking.
But, but, but … Daniel!! I just heard INTEL exec’s in AZ … where they are building a new Federal Govt. bought and paid-for “chip factory” … cry in their towels that Trump was elected and may turn off the FREE MONEY! Don’t you NEED computer chips to program stuff!?
/sarc.
Too many Punjabi landlords engage in rent-sikhing.
Dr. Patrick Moore in summary of his books writes that Co2 is crucial to the existence of mankind and planet earth!!!!Guilbeault you are an idiot trying to lessen it——-intelligence is weak with you dear Darth Maul!
Our oil industry is a great benefit in all ways—your attempt to kill it shows your stupidity!
+++ K H
And, just for giggles, in the US and Australia, companies actually DRILL for Carbon Dioxide. This is then used INDUSTRIALLY.
“Extracting” the gas from the atmosphere is a fools errand, especially given that it is such a tiny proportion of the overall atmosphere.
Any gas drillers have more to add?