Aquistore demonstrates safe and cost-effective CO2 storage

摘要

Located in southeastern Saskatchewan,Canada,the Aquistore project is Canada's first deep saline aquifer carbon dioxide(CO2)storage project.It began injection in February of 2015,and has safely stored over 300,000 tonnes of CO2 from SaskPower's Boundary Dam Carbon Capture Facility.At the time of its commissioning in 2014,Boundary Dam represented the world's first commercial post-combustion CO2 capture from a coal-fired power plant.The Aquistore project began its development in 2009,well before construction on the Boundary Dam Capture Facility began.Initial plans for deep geological storage were devised by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre(PTRC)-a not-for-profit research company based in Regina,Saskatchewan-and early planning considered different industrial CO2 sources.The capture scenarios from different industrial sources in Saskatchewan were initially driven by new provincial and federal emissions regulations being developed with the aim of reducing Saskatchewan's greenhouse gas emissions to 2005 levels by 2030.