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Oil producer Arc Energy joins the emerging coal power company Aviva Corporation in its study towards the sequestration of carbon in WA soil.
The study, initially commissioned by Aviva, is being carried out by CO2CRC Technologies which is looking at sequestration sites for the future emissions from Aviva’s planned 400MW Coolimba power plant in the state’s Mid West.
Aviva chief executive Lindsay Reed welcomed Arc’s participation in the study.
“The North Perth Basin offers potentially the most promising sites in WA, if not Australia, for sequestration of carbon dioxide,” he said.
Aviva is in the midst of developing its Coolimba Power Project, a $1 billion investment in a 400MW coal-fired station, 20km south of the Mid West town of Eneabba.
The power has been earmarked for residents and emerging resource projects in the region.
“But the other exciting thing about this project is the opportunity for it to become Australia’s first and largest commercial carbon capture project, through sequestration and storing its future carbon dioxide emissions,” Reed said.
Arc executive director of operations Gary Jefferies said there were many benefits the two companies could bring to the project.
He said the geosequestration studies will examine the use of carbon dioxide to enhance hydrocarbon recoveries from Arc Energy’s mature oil and gas fields.
