Carbon Capture
Caber Engineering has been involved in CO2 capture since this technology became a viable solution to store gas and contribute to sustainable energy development. With more than 10 years of experience, Caber has an excellent track record in successfully designing systems to capture, process, transport, and inject both raw and produced CO2 streams from production operations.
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Project Profile
Caber Engineering is currently working with Enhance Energy Inc., a world leader in combating green house gas emissions and carbon sequestering, to capture CO2 byproduct produced at an Agrium fertilizer plant. This CO2 is currently vented into the atmosphere and Enhance Energy has entered into an agreement with Agrium to recover it. Once recovered, the CO2 will be used for Tertiary (enhanced) oil recovery where it will be injected into wells in order to stimulate trapped oil that was not extracted during primary and secondary recovery activities.
Caber will be installing a pipeline approximately one (1) km long to capture the CO2 from inside of an Agrium fertilizer plant and transport it to an Enhance facility for processing. The process of treatment will include: separation of water from the CO2, compression, dehydration, refrigeration and then pumping it into ACTL (Alberta Carbon Trunk Line), a pipeline that will transport the CO2 to reservoirs that will use the CO2 for enhanced oil recovery.
Caber has provided complete engineering design and procurement for other clients:
Recovery
- Two separate trains to recover, purify, compress and liquefy hot, low pressure and wet CO2. Project consisted of approximately 5000 HP of compression.
- Single train to recover, purify and compress hot, low pressure, sour, and wet CO2. Project consisted of approximately 3000 HP of compression.
- Consulted with others to resolve operating and design deficiencies in smaller facilities producing food and commercial grade CO2.
Transportation
- Provided engineering services on pipeline design and operation, including the design of depressurizing equipment for future tie-ins.
- Initial modeling of pipeline hydraulics, later followed by the installation of a pipeline pump station. This pump, which operates near the vapour pressure curve, boosts mainline pressure as field pressure climbs.
Production
- Provided consulting services to a large production facility in Saskatchewan to resolve design and operating deficiencies.
- Provided complete engineering and procurement services to install equipment to process additional produced CO2 and oil over several years (three phases) as production increased in the field.
- Modified a refrigeration unit to recover produced CO2 in an early production system prior to full battery design.