Shute Creek Gas Processing Facility

Location: Southwestern Wyoming, United States of America

Proponents: ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Technical aspects

• Following an expansion in plant capacity in 2010, around 7 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of carbon dioxide (CO₂) are recovered from ExxonMobil's Shute Creek gas processing facility near LaBarge in southwest Wyoming.
• The CO₂ is transported via Exxon, ChevronTexaco and Anadarko pipelines to several oil fields in Wyoming for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
• The larger volumes of CO₂ from the plant are delivered to ChevronTexaco’s Rangely Weber oil field (1Mtpa) and Anadarko’s Salt Creek oil field (2.4Mtpa).
• CO₂ is also sent to Anadarko's Monell oil field and Merit Energy's Lost Soldier oil field.

Key Deliverables

• The Rangely Oil Field is one of the oldest and largest oil fields in the Rocky Mountain region. The field has been producing since the 1940s, and has injected a total of approximately 23-25 million tonnes of CO₂ for EOR since 1986.

CO₂ injection in the Salt Creek oil field commenced in 2004. Five of the 18 phases of the Salt Creek EOR project have been completed, with closure by 2023. It is regarded as one of the largest EOR projects in the United States. A new 400km pipeline to connect Exxon Mobil's Shute Creek gas plant in southwest Wyoming to Anadarko’s Salt Creek oil field was completed in 2006.