PCOR in Calgary

September 2006: PCOR Partnership Annual Meeting (Calgary)

Bronze Telly Award

Zama Acid Gas Injection Site

EERCEnergy & Environmental Research Center®

Putting Research into Practice

2003

What Is CO2 Sequestration?

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major by-product of energy use. CO2 sequestration means capturing CO2 and putting it into environmentally sound temporary or permanent storage. Indirect sequestration is captur-

ing CO2 from the air and storing it for some period of time in soils or vegetation. Direct sequestration is capturing CO2 from exhaust or process gas and placing it in relatively permanent storage, usually in underground geological formations.

What Is the PCOR Partnership?The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership is a diverse group of public and private sector stakeholders working together to better understand the technical and economic feasibility of capturing and storing CO2 emissions from stationary sources of CO2 in the central interior of North America. The PCOR Partnership is managed by the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota and is one of seven regional partnerships funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Regional Car-bon Sequestration Partnership Initiative and a broad range of project sponsors.

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Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) PartnershipPractical, Environmentally Sound CO2 Sequestration

®

EERCEnergy & Environmental Research Center

PCOR Partnership Region

CO2 and Sequestration – Did You Know?

Why Sequester CO2? There is concern that the ongoing accumulation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activity will affect global climate. The President’s Global Climate Change Initiative, issued in the spring of 2003, calls for an 18% reduction in U.S. CO2 intensity by 2012. Conser-vation, more efficient power systems, renewable energy, and sequestration are all tools to help reduce CO2 intensity.

What Role Will the PCOR Partnership Play? The partnership will assess and prioritize the opportunities for sequestration in the region and identify and work to resolve the technical, regulatory, and environmental barriers to the most promising sequestration opportunities. At the same time, the partnership will work to inform policy makers and the public regarding CO2 sources, sequestration strategies, and sequestration opportunities.

• WhileCO2emissionsincreased,U.S.CO2intensity(CO2emissionsperdollarofgrossdomesticproduct[GDP])decreasedbyone-thirdinthe1990s.1

• TheninestatesofthePCORPartnershipregiongener-ateabout11%(163milliontonscarbonequivalent)oftheannualCO2emissionsfortheUnitedStates.1

• CO2emissionsintheregionaresplitbetweenmobile(29%)andstationary(71%)sources.1

• Croplands,wetlands,andforestsintheregionrepre-sentopportunitiesforindirectsequestrationprojects.

• Unminablecoals,depletedoilandgaszones,anddeepsalinereservoirsintheregionrepresentoppor-tunitiesfordirectsequestrationprojects.

• ThePCORPartnershipregioniscurrentlyhometoamajordirectvalue-addedsequestrationdemonstra-tionproject.2

Fact Sheet No. 1

University ofNorth Dakota

Grand Forks

NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY

EERC WP28879.JPG Billings

June 2004: First Fact Sheet Completed

March 2005: Public Web Site Launched

October 2005: 1st Edition of Atlas

2006December 2003: PCOR PartnershipKickoff Meeting (EERC, Grand Forks)

October 2004: PCOR Partnership Annual Meeting (Billings)

Summer 2006: Prairie Pothole Region Testing

2003: Original PCOR Partnership Region

October 2004: PCOR Partnership Region Growing

September 2007: Fort Nelson Phase III

Demonstration Site Selected

October 2003: John Litynski, DOE Project Manager for

PCOR Partnership

2003: 70 bcf CO2 Injected into Weyburn

2003:

Phase I Begins

PCOR PARTNERSHIP TIME LINE

April 2005: Focus Group Meeting in Williston, ND

November 2005: Annual Meeting Attendees (Xcel Energy,

Minneapolis)February 2004: Facebook

Comes into Existence

October 2004: The “Curse of the Bambino” Ends — The

Boston Red Sox Win the 100th World Series after 86 years

December 2006: Acid Gas Injection Starts at Zama

October 2007: Annual Meeting Attendees (EERC, Grand Forks)

August 2007: Well Installation at Lignite Site – Five Wells

January 2007: iPhone Announced

2007

February 2005: Kyoto Protocol Entered into Force

February 2005: YouTube Created

August 2006: Pluto Demoted from Planet Status

2005 July 2006: Twitter Launched2004

July 2004: Apache Canada Makes Application to ERCB for

Acid Gas Flood (Zama)

May 2007: CSLF Recognition Award for Zama (Paris)

March 2007: Darin Damiani, New DOE Project Manager for

PCOR Partnership

2007: PCOR Partnership Region

2005: PCOR Partnership Region Still Growing

May 2007: DOE First Edition Atlas

May 2003: Annika Sorenstam First Woman to Play in PGA

Tour Event in 58 years

May 2005: Nature in the Balance Documentary Premieres

October 2005:

Phase II BeginsOctober 2007:

Phase III Begins

October 2007: Pioneer Award Winners Bill Jackson, Greg Steiner (not

shown), Bob Mau, and Lynn Helms