Happy Tuesday! We hope you had a chance to enjoy the Spring like weather, today!
We love a follow-up. We blogged on Summit Carbon Solutions
(SCS) back in March 2023 and the hang-ups they had progressing their CO2
pipeline. They were in the news earlier
in June due to a favorable ruling from North Dakota’s Supreme Court. Then in
June 2024, SCS had their construction permit application approved from
the Iowa Utilities Board with stipulations including they
must get North and South Dakota’s approval of the route and sites in their
respective states before starting construction in Iowa as well as a few others
before they issue the final permit.
Well, looks like the have progressed more on this interstate CO2
pipeline. (Check out our Blog for SCS previous progress or hiccups!)
Did
anyone happen to read the Oil & Gas Journal’s OGJ Daily Update
Newsletter on February 21, 2025, their article titled, “Midwest Carbon
Express CO2 pipeline makes halting progress”? The article is on Summit Carbon Solutions who has made further progress on their 2,000-mile liquified
CO2 pipeline. The Midwest Carbon Express
Carbon Capture and Sequestration Pipeline has expanded since its original
conception it now connects to 17 Iowa ethanol plants, so the five-state
pipeline will connect at 57 different tie-in locations. The Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC) which was
the Iowa Utilities Board approved SCS’s 688 miles of multi-diameter pipeline in Iowa
in June 2024. A Summit Carbon
Solutions has expanded their pipeline by 500-miles with the addition of
Poet, LLC and Valero Renewable Fuels Co., LLC, and filed for additional permits
with the IUC for the additional 340 miles not pat of the original pipeline, and
they had more public landowner meetings for these permits. IUC has not set the hearing date at this time
for either the additional construction permits or the hazardous liquids permit. Iowa alone will have 1,028 miles of CO2
pipeline.
SCS has made progress in the other four states. In South Dakota, they have refiled their siting
permit application after having the South Dakota Supreme Court rule against
them in October 2024. On the other
hand, North Dakota PSC has granted SCS’s pipeline siting permit, nonetheless
they have the stipulation South Dakota has to have granted theirs to start
building the pipeline. On another high note Minnesota PUC granted their part of
the SCS pipeline which connects to North Dakota with the same
stipulation. When SCS’s Midwest
Carbon Express CCS Pipeline gets all its ducks in a row for the five states,
the project will be built in 14 phases, and it is estimated to take 3 years and
they are hoping to begin building by August 2026.
SCS has proposed an additional pipeline called Otter Tail to Wilken CO2 Pipeline Project which is 28-miles of very small diameter pipeline which will need its own permitting and environmental review which at the end of 2024 the Minnesota application hasn’t been filed. We wish SCS luck in getting all its rights-of-ways and permits, and its 45Z tax credits. If you would like to check out the article from the Oil and Gas Journal, please click the link: Midwest Carbon Express CO2 pipeline makes halting progress | Oil & Gas Journal.
Summit
Carbon Solutions’ Midwest Carbon Express
CCS Pipeline project is expected to cross five states and cover approximately
2,500 miles. The pipeline will end in
North Dakota where the carbon dioxide will be stored underground in geologic
formations. The Midwest Carbon Express Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Pipeline proposed route.
Our team of experts have
experience in helping you move your liquids to underground storage and
navigating the permitting process, so if you would like to start a project contact
us today! Check out our website!
We hope you have a wonderful
evening!
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