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Yanchang Petroleum CCS Project – Enhanced oil recovery using CO₂ in North West China

16th March 2016

Topic(s): Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)

The Global CCS Institute has recently published a report on the Yanchang Petroleum Group’s CCUS Project in the Shaanxi Province in China. This report focusing on the utilisation and storage of the CCUS Project is the topic of this webinar. It is the second report and webinar in a series on the Yanchang CCUS Project; the first detailed the capture technology. 

Yanchang Petroleum Group is planning a carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) project in China. Yanchang are currently operating several coal to chemicals (CTC) projects in Shaanxi Province in North West China, which inherently have high CO₂ emissions. Those projects will enable enhanced oil recovery (EOR) using the CO₂ in a series of mature oil fields in the Ordos Basin. The benefits of this CCUS Project is twofold enabling the reduction in CO₂ emissions whilst increasing oil production in an arid environment.

In this webinar, Dr Gao Ruimin of the Research Institute of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group provided a project update and discuss the local geology, as well as the technical aspects of utilisation and storage of the Project, covering:

• Background of the project and project update
• Ordos Basin geology
• Technical details of CO2-EOR operation 
• Commercial drivers 
• Project timeline 

Here is a recording of the webinar and a browsable version of the slides used in the presentation:

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