We hope you all are enjoying your two for Twos-day (Tuesday)!
Did you catch my Valentine’s Blog about the article called,
“Carbon Capture Plant’s Revival Offers Opportunity for Redemption” in the Texas
Inc. section of The Houston Chronicle on February 13, 2023
which was a reprint of a Bloomberg
article? It is about a local carbon
capture plant in Richmond, Texas who is having a comeback and getting a second
chance at life. After a few upgrades on
the plant which are expected to be completed in June 2023, the plant will
restart. This plant is expected to ship
the carbon it captures to an energy company’s oil field, and they will be using
it for a process called enhanced oil recovery. Enhanced oil recovery is a
process where carbon dioxide is injected into an oil well and it squeezes out
the oil and is then stored in reservoirs deep underground.
Well, The Houston
Chronicle has done a follow up article in the Spotlight in the Texas Inc. section
called, “Carbon
Capture – Petra Nova is being revived.
Can it live up to its promise?” In the article, it speaks about how the Petra
Nova plant had many problems and outages, even had a fire in one of its Units. Petra Nova being first of its kind large
scale carbon capture plant was expected to have issues and because of the
issues it didn’t collect as much carbon dioxide as promised. How will it be different this time besides
the tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act helps with the cost of running
the plant! I guess we will see, if they
can iron out and improve on what they have learned because all eyes are on
them.
Well, seems like carbon capture of this magnitude would have
some hiccups along the way to cleaning up emissions and helping with climate
change. If you think about the first
automobiles, people laughed at them and said it wouldn’t work, because they
weren’t reliable due to breakdowns, and it caused a lot of pollution. Now look at
the automobile we could not live without them, and they’re more fuel efficient
and have less emissions than ever, especially compared against those first automobiles. I guess we will find out soon enough what
will help us and our fight against climate change.
If you would like to read the original article from Bloomberg, please click the link. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-08/the-world-s-largest-carbon-capture-plant-gets-a-second-chance-in-texas?leadSource=uverify%20wall
If you would like to read the follow-up from The Houston Chronicle, please click the
link: PetraNova seeks to reboot industrial carbon capture (houstonchronicle.com)
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We hope you have
a great rest of your week!
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– please note there may be a fee involved to see this article in The Houston Chronicle, and it is also
available on Bloomberg for a fee.