All Posts Tagged With: "carbon capture"

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Expansion of World’s Largest CO2 Capture Plant near LaBarge Complete

“This expansion will result in lower greenhouse gas emissions and help maximize the recovery of Wyoming’s oil resources,” said Randy Broiles, vice president, Americas, ExxonMobil Production Company.

17Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Barrasso: Finding Cleaner Ways to Use Coal; Best Way to Cut Greenhouse Gases

The Senator believes that finding cleaner ways to use coal is one of the most viable methods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while still meeting the energy demands that continue to grow around the world. “We need the renewables but (renewable energy development) is not keeping up with the overall demand for energy.”

10May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Barrasso, Bingaman Introduce Bill to Address Climate Change

The legislation would encourage technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and permanently sequestering it. The Carbon Dioxide Capture Technology Act, S.2744, will establish an award system for scientists and researchers.

14Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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CH2M HILL Awarded Wyoming CO2 Pipeline Project

The project involves capturing gas emissions from the Lost Cabin Gas Plant in Fremont County, and injecting it into oil wells in Encore’s Bell Creek Field in southeastern Montana, with the aim of helping to increase domestic oil production from that field.

30Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Big Oil’s Answer to Carbon Law May Be
Fuel Imports

America’s biggest oil companies will probably cope with U.S. carbon legislation by closing fuel plants, cutting capital spending and increasing imports, according to ConocoPhillips Chief Executive Officer Jim
Mulva.

26Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Energy Research Projects Seek Stimulus Funds

Wyoming scientists and other groups have drawn up a range of proposals for stimulus-funded research projects to help the state’s energy industry, largely by studying how to deal with carbon dioxide emissions.

3Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ranchers Voice Skepticism on Carbon Storage Plan

Only ranchers who have a grazing plan would qualify for the program, which would require the ranchers to watch out for overgrazing so that their grass is long enough to store carbon.

23Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Cap-and-Trade Approach Gathers New Support

The group hopes the approach will help remove some of the regulatory uncertainity currently in the marketplace, which is “postponing investment,” according to James Rogers, chief executive of Duke Energy Corp.

21Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Why Not Geothermal Energy as Base Load Power?

The Earth Policy Institute thinks geothermal energy can become an economic substitute to provide base load energy. They say the “heat energy in the uppermost six miles of the planet’s crust is 50.000 times greater than the energy content of all oil and natural gas resources.”

17Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued