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Tenaska Discusses Plans for CO2 Injection Wells in WV, OH, PA

Yesterday, representatives from Tenaska gave a presentation to the Hancock County (WV) Commission detailing the company’s plans to drill carbon dioxide (CO2) injection wells in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The company anticipates drilling seven CO2 injection wells/sites in WV, 12 wells/sites in OH, and three wells/sites in PA. Tenaska has established an office in Weirton, WV, as it works toward establishing its carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) process in the region. It hopes to have wells operations by 2027.
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Company Seeks to Lease New York Mineral & Pore Rights for Flat $10

A company called Southern Tier CO2 to Clean Energy Solutions, based in Binghamton, NY (where MDN is located), is sending fliers to landowners in Broome, Tioga, and Chemung counties (along the border with Pennsylvania, where there is no doubt large amounts of Marcellus and Utica gas beneath the ground) inviting landowners to sign up for what appears to be an exciting opportunity to sell gas rights. The flier (below) and company website say the company plans to use carbon dioxide (CO2) to (a) store it underground, but also (b) use it to extract natural gas from underground and then (c) either sell the gas via pipeline or burn it to produce electricity. The technology envisioned is an alternative to fracking. Will it work? And, will it be profitable for landowners?
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Consolation Prize? PA DCNR Gets $1M from Biden DOE for CCUS Work

Did the Democrats running the Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) just receive a consolation prize from the Democrats who run the federal Dept. of Energy (DOE)? That’s the question swirling in our heads as we read about the PA DCNR receiving a $1 million grant from the DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) to do some CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration) work. Is the DOE about to bypass PA and award a $1 BILLION grand prize to West Virginia for a hydrogen hub (that includes CCUS), and is this $1 million grant the Biden way of preempting sore feelings in PA by throwing them a bone?
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Washington County, PA, Makes a Play to Attract Carbon Capture

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Diana Irey Vaughan has been a Washington County, PA commissioner for almost 30 years. She’s learned a thing or two about anticipating economic trends and understanding what’s likely to happen in the future. Vaughan was an early supporter of the Marcellus industry in her county, the county with THE most Marcellus wells drilled in the state. Something new is appearing on Vaughan’s radar: carbon capture and storage. She thinks now is the time for Washington County (and for Gov. Shapiro and the legislature) to pursue landing new CCS projects for the Keystone State.
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PA Geologists Building a Map of Rock Layers for Future CO2 Storage

Core samples at the Pennsylvania Geological Survey on Nov. 15, 2022. Photo: Jeremy Long / WITF

Hydrogen energy is all the rage these days–even though it’s unproven, and there’s no evidence it will ever replace natural gas as a main fuel source. Indeed, there’s plenty of evidence hydrogen will never fully replace gas (see Why 100% Hydrogen Will Never Power Your Home; Why Antis Hate H2). Wrapped up in the “hydrogen is the future of energy” debate is carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), sometimes called CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration). In simple terms, CCS is capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from sources like burning oil and natural gas and storing it deep underground where it can’t (please don’t laugh) toast Mom Earth into a cinder, as the left insists is happening. To store CO2 underground, you must know where it can be safely and permanently done. The Pennsylvania Geological Survey and its partners are building a digital tool and testing hundreds of rock core samples to help others know where the safest places to store CO2 in the Keystone State are located.
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$2B WV Hydrogen Proj Taps Battelle to Develop Carbon Capture System

In August, MDN told you about a new $2 billion hydrogen project coming to West Virginia (see $2B Hydrogen Project Announces for WV – FidelisH2 in Mason Co.). Fidelis New Energy announced it had selected Mason County for a “net-zero” hydrogen production facility and low carbon microgrid, which it has dubbed The Mountaineer GigaSystem. The Fidelis plan includes building data centers powered by net-zero hydrogen. Fidelis will produce hydrogen with “zero lifecycle carbon emissions” from a combination of Marcellus/Utica gas, renewable energy, and CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration). Yesterday, Fidelis announced it has tapped Battelle Carbon Services to develop the CCUS portion of the project.
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Cambridge Study Finds Carbon Offsets Using Trees is a Scam

Carbon offsets are the same thing as carbon taxes. A carbon offset refers to reducing so-called greenhouse gas emissions by buying a credit from someone who plants trees or agrees not to cut down trees. A company gets to keep on polluting as long as it pays a tax to do it–pretending they are helping the precious environment by paying to plant or not chop down trees. It is the darnedest feat of mental gymnastics we’ve ever seen. Who thinks up this stuff? (Hey, wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn? We have one to sell!) A new study by the leftists at the University of Cambridge published yesterday in the journal Science exposes the sale of carbon credits as a scam.
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BKV Corp Partners with NuQuest Energy on CCS Project in Louisiana

Banpu is Thailand’s largest coal mining company. However, it is looking to reduce the amount of revenue it derives from coal from around 66% today to 50% by 2025. One of the ways Banpu is accomplishing that objective is by investing in American shale gas, American gas-fired power plants, and now, American carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). Banpu partners with Kalnin Ventures and operates BKV Corporation (Banpu Kalnin Ventures), the American arm of Banpu (96% owned by Banpu). Over the past seven years, BKV has become one of the top 20 gas-weighted natural gas producers in the U.S.
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Exxon Buys Carbon Capture Business Denbury for $4.9 Billion

Exxon Mobil Corporation announced it is buying Denbury Inc., a developer of carbon capture, utilization, and storage solutions and enhanced oil recovery, for $4.9 billion in an all-stock transaction. Denbury currently focuses on the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain region. Presumably, Exxon plans to expand Denbury’s technology to other regions, including the Marcellus/Utica.
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Enviro Groups Pressure PA Gov. Shapiro for Right to Block CCS

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So sick with hatred for fossil fuels is the left, that they have turned on one of their own solutions to the “climate crisis,” which is capturing and storing (or sequestering) carbon dioxide, often shortened to CCS (carbon capture and sequestration). The left fears that successful CCS will lead to continued, or even (gasp) an increase in drilling for oil and gas. If O&G can capture and sequester 100% of carbon dioxide (and methane) emissions, it still won’t please the left, so deep is the hatred for fossil energy. It’s a sickness. That sickness was on full display in a letter (copy below) from 18 Pennsylvania and national leftist “environmental” groups to PA Gov. Josh Shapiro asking for “a seat at the table” in crafting new state policies and regulations for CCS. Translation: They want to block it.
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The Potential Dangers of CCS – Sequestering CO2 Underground

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Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), storing captured carbon dioxide underground, is all the rage in the oil and gas industry. Necessarily so, because we have decided to play the left’s game when it comes to CO2 supposedly causing global warming. When you play their game, you quickly learn they can (and do) change the rules of the game at any time–while you’re playing it! Oil and gas companies, in an effort to prove they are responsible and not the evil dregs of society they are portrayed to be, are attempting to capture and store as much CO2 as possible. But did you know that if that CO2 leaks out of its underground storage, the results can be catastrophic?
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Anti-Fossil Fuel Zealot from Cornell Trash Talks PA Blue Hydrogen

Cornell University professor Robert Howarth has poked his head up again to bash shale energy. This time he’s taking aim at hydrogen produced from natural gas. Howarth hates fossil fuels–all of them–including clean-burning natural gas. In March 2011, Howarth and two other Cornell profs published a peer-reviewed study in the journal Climatic Change titled, “Methane and the greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations” (see New Cornell University Study Says Shale Gas Extraction Worse for Global Warming Than Coal). The study made the laughable claim that shale gas extraction is worse for the environment than burning coal because of greenhouse gases.
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UN Turns Against Carbon Removal Tech as “Unproven” and “Risky”

We have warned you, repeatedly, that environmental leftist wackos will NEVER accept fossil fuel energy under any circumstances. If you were to wave a magic wand and take away all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil energy, they would still reject it. And we have proof of our assertion. The United Nations (UN), a body governed by leftist thugs and tyrants, now says using machines to remove vast amounts of CO2 from the air and sea to fight climate change is “unproven” and contains “unknown” risks. Ergo, we shouldn’t even try it. Ergo, we must eliminate the use of all fossil fuel energy to save the planet from burning to a cinder.
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Carbon Offsets are a Scam – CEO of Largest CO2 Certifier Resigns

We’ve often compared carbon dioxide (CO2) offsets, or carbon credits, as akin to the practice of the Catholic Church selling indulgences in the Middle Ages to absolve you of your sins (see our stories here). But that doesn’t really work, does it? Your sins don’t magically go away if you pay money. It’s the same with carbon offsets or carbon credits. Companies that buy an offset can keep right on “polluting” or emitting CO2. The overall level of CO2 “pollution” doesn’t change. Paying someone to plant a few trees or use a contraption to suck the CO2 back out of the atmosphere is a scam. A lie. And now, the companies formed to traffic in carbon offsets are being exposed as the frauds they are.
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WVU & NNE Drilling Test Well for CCS, Geothermal Energy

During the second week of May, Marcellus driller Northeast Natural Energy will begin to drill a geothermal and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) data collection well–all the way down to 15,000 below the surface. The test well is being done in cooperation with (under the direction of) West Virginia University and the U.S. Dept. of Energy. The study and the data collected from the well aim to test the potential of geothermal energy in the region and gather information on the potential for underground CCS in the Appalachian basin.
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EPA Continues to Delay Approval of Class VI CCS Injection Wells

To store carbon dioxide (CO2) underground, you need a Class VI CO2 injection well. Currently, the federal EPA is the primary regulator (has “primacy”) in regulating Class VI wells in all but two states (neither of which is a Marcellus/Utica state). PA and other oil and gas states are seeking to become the lead regulator for Class VI CO2 wells, which we explained in a post in March (see Understanding “Primacy” Issue for Class VI (CO2) Injection Wells). It’s critically important for individual states, like PA, to be the lead regulator–to have “primacy” in regulating Class VI wells. Yet the Biden EPA is slow-walking the process that would give individual states primacy.
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