Happy Thursday! Hope you have been able to keep dry this afternoon with all the storms which rolled in!
Well,
we haven’t heard much on Class VI injection well permits from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects
lately. Then bam! Suddenly, even with the governmental shutdown
suddenly things are happening. I guess it’s
the misdirection of attention which is going to have things being approved
under the radar. Then again, Texas is still awaiting approval
to approve their own Class VI injection well permits like Louisiana and
Wyoming. Let’s speak on what happened
recently.
Did
anyone happen to read the Oil & Gas Journal’s Daily Update Newsletter on
October 22, 2025, their article titled, “ExxonMobil advances Rose carbon
storage project in Texas with Class VI permits”? In the article, it speaks on how the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class VI permits for three of ExxonMobil’s test
wells in Jefferson County, Texas. The three
carbon dioxide (CO2) injection wells will be changed to long term storage
injection wells. The CO2 wells as well as a CO2 monitoring system are part of
ExxonMobil’s Rose carbon storage project. The three CO2 injection wells will transport the
CO2 to formations a half mile to a mile and a half below ground and there will be
less than twenty-mile pipeline connecting to the wells. ExxonMobil will be able to insert less than 2
million metric tonnes/year per well or a combined total of five million metric
tonnes/year with the permit expiring in thirteen years. We will try and keep up with other EPA’s UIC Class
VI permits which are approved as well as other CCS projects. If you
would like to read more of Oil and Gas Journal’s article, please click
the link: ExxonMobil
advances Rose carbon storage project in Texas with Class VI permits | Oil &
Gas Journal.
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you would like help in looking into how to transport your product more efficiently
and with less of a carbon footprint or you would like to see what is beneath
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