The Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) in Regina and the CO2 Commonwealth Research Centre (C02CRC) announced the formal signing of a memorandum of understanding on July 5.
As a leader in the field of carbon management, PTRC manages all research associated with Aquistore, the world’s only integrated storage project associated with an industrial-scale coal-fired power plant. The facility is located near Estevan and the Boundary Dam Unit 3 carbon capture facility.
Aquistore provides an exclusive industrial laboratory to test and develop viable, lower cost monitoring technologies to advance commercial CCS projects internationally.
CO2CRC is a leading carbon capture and storage organization in Australia. For over a decade they have worked to introduce advanced technologies that support the deployment of industrial scale CCS projects. It is the only Australian organization to have undertaken full chain CCS (capture, transportation, storage).
The data sets and research emerging from Aquistore are unique. As a world-leading project, Aquistore continues to attract international attention and research partners, as evidenced by this current MOU, said research officials.
Tania Constable, CO2CRC’s CEO said, “Both CO2CRC and PTRC are focused on driving the costs of carbon capture and storage down to deploy CCS more quickly. Sharing information techniques will help. CO2CRC will work closely with PTRC to support this goal.”
The MOU signed with the Australian group is PTRC’s fourth international agreement related to Aquistore. Agreements have recently been signed with British, American and Mexican organizations.
Ken From, PTRC’s CEO said, “The performance of Aquistore and the data generated are exceeding expectations of the PTRC team and the world’s research community.”
The agreement represents efforts to prepare and execute joint research, facilitate the exchange of scientists and technical personnel and encourage dedicated CO2 storage on regional, national and international scales.
PTRC was founded in 1998 and is the manager of the world’s largest CO2 storage project and Saskatchewan’s first integrated CO2 capture, transport, injection and storage project in a deep saline formation in southeast Saskatchewan near Estevan.
CO2CRC collaborates with Australian and international scientific project-management talent to ensure internal skill sets of Australian and global industry leaders, universities, and government agencies are utilized to provide industry relevant results for members. They have a world-leading project underway in the Otway Research Facility, Australia’s first demonstration of deep geological storage of CO2.
