Happy Thursday!
Did anyone catch our Blog back at
the end of March 2023, in which we wrote about how the CO2 pipelines in the
Midwest were having hang-ups very similar to the ones oil and gas pipelines are
prone to having? They were trying to move
a product and things weren’t going their way!
The Midwest Carbon Express Pipeline which is mentioned in that article is
still in the books at this time with expected completion in 2026. We are talking about another CO2 pipeline which
was being developed in the Midwest. The
Heartland Greenway CCUS pipeline project looks like it is another causality in
the war on pipelines in the U.S.
Did anyone see
the Oil & Gas Journal’s Newsletter on November 2, 2023, they had an article
called, “Navigator cancels US Midwest CCUS pipeline project”? The article speaks about Navigator CO2
Ventures scrapped its 1,300-mile Heartland Greenway carbon capture, utilization,
and sequestration (CCUS) pipeline project, due to regulatory problems in South
Dakota and Iowa, and canceled its application in Illinois. The Heartland Greenway pipeline was being
developed to gather emissions from more than thirty Midwest ethanol plants in Iowa,
Nebraska, and South Dakota which would then be converted into liquid CO2 and
moved by pipeline to be stored underground in Illinois. The Heartland Greenway pipeline was anticipated
to move about 15-million tonnes/year (tpy) of CO2, but as of October the
project has been canceled. It appears CCUS
pipelines are going to have an uphill battle!
If you would like to read more of the article from the Oil and
Journal, please click the link: Navigator
cancels US Midwest CCUS pipeline project | Oil & Gas Journal (ogj.com).
If you would
like help in looking into how to transport your product and help reduce your
carbon-foot print, contact us via the email in the blog and check out our ESC's website!
We hope you have a wonderful evening!