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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $3 million to Carbon Solutions, LLC to advance the Wyoming Trails Carbon Hub (WyoTCH) project to promote a low-carbon future. The Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) will be the co-lead of the project.
The WyoTCH project will perform a front-end engineering design, or FEED study for a common carrier, CO2 pipeline system with the capacity to transport up to 120 million metric tons of CO2 per year. This grant will focus on CO2 transport costs, pipeline network configurations, and other technical, commercial, and community impact considerations that advance carbon management technologies at commercial scale in Wyoming. The WyoTCH pipeline will connect CO2 sources with sinks from southwest Wyoming to east-central Wyoming following an optimized route, and utilize the work previously done by the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative (WPCI).
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Studies being conducted by the Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) indicate that there is significant stranded oil in existing oil fields producing from the Muddy Formation. These studies are developing new strategies for correlating flow units within the Muddy Formation that can lead to better strategies in hydrocarbon recovery from these reservoirs.
“The Muddy Formation is one of the more tempting targets for Improved and Enhanced Oil Recovery projects in Wyoming,” says Steve Whitaker, Senior Geologist at the EORI. “The Muddy is one of the more complex formations in the state and as such, it presents golden opportunities for improved mapping techniques that can lead directly to improved oil and gas recovery.”
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The Enhanced Oil Recovery Commissioner, Representative Donald Burkhart emphasizes the importance of Wyoming’s energy leadership while creating jobs, boosting local economies, and ensuring Wyoming continues to play an important part in the world’s energy future.
Representative Burkhart explains that to “cement our role in domestic energy production and continue utilizing the vast fossil fuel resources we have available to us, we should be working to develop emerging, cutting-edge energy technologies like hydrogen production and carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS).”
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The Department of Energy (DOE), the Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) release the latest Carbon Transportation and Storage Newsletter (CTSN) summarizing public and private sector carbon transportation and storage news from around the world.
The Carbon Transportation and Storage Newsletter provides information on recent activities and publications related to carbon transport and storage. It covers domestic, international, and public and private sector news in the following areas: highlights, announcements, projects and business developments, legislation and policy, emissions trading, science and publications.
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Over half of Wyoming residents surveyed support Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) as a way to capture and store CO2
An updated survey from the University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources (SER) explores Wyoming residents’ perspectives of energy development, including “social license” -- the level in which Cowboy State residents support or oppose different forms and amounts of energy development. The findings conclude that a majority of Wyoming residents surveyed feel that EOR is important to Wyoming’s economy.
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The Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) is launching the EORI Current Projects and Publications dashboard offering information on EORI's current project locations, project descriptions, as well as a chart depicting project types and their frequencies.
The dashboard also contains a list of EORI's downloadable publications and a link to EORI's complete library of presentations. A side benefit of the dashboard is to provide users with information on the types of projects and research the EORI performs.
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The Wyoming Energy Authority Board of Directors is seeking to fill the role of Executive Director.
To learn more about this role, please read the full job description. Applications will be open until February 10, 2023.
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The Department of Energy (DOE), the Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) release the latest Carbon Transportation and Storage Newsletter (CTSN) summarizing public and private sector carbon transportation and storage news from around the world.
The Carbon Transportation and Storage Newsletter provides information on recent activities and publications related to carbon transport and storage. It covers domestic, international, and public and private sector news in the following areas: highlights, announcements, projects and business developments, legislation and policy, emissions trading, science and publications.
- DOE, FE and NETL January 2023 Carbon Transportation and Storage Newsletter
- EORI Studies the Potential for Improved Oil Recovery in Oilfields with Sparse Data, PRB, WY
- DOE, FE and NETL December 2022 Carbon Transportation and Storage Newsletter
- EORI Publishes CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery in Wyoming: 2020 Update
- The Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute Publishes Viper Drill: Ultrashort Radius Drilling Technology for Alleviating Near-Wellbore Permeability Problems, Thompson Creek Field, Wyoming
- EORI Publishes “Characterization and Simulation of Reservoirs in the Muddy Formation: Hirsch Field Area, Powder River Basin, Wyoming”