Foster Wheeler Ltd is to undertake a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for BP Exploration (El Djazair) Ltd on behalf of the In Salah Gas Joint Venture for the Southern Fields Development Project in Algeria.
Business Week reports that the $100 million CCS operation was just 2.5% of the overall $4 billion cost of the In Salah gas production complex.
One of the main environmental initiatives adopted by the In Salah Gas Project to limit greenhouse gas emissions has been to re-inject CO2 removed from natural gas, back into the production reservoir.
Petrofac has been awarded a US$600 million lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction contract by In Salah Gas (ISG), an association between Sonatrach (35%), BP (33%) and Statoil (32%) to develop and market gas from the District 3 region in the central Sahara area of Algeria.
The Associated Press quoted Mohamed Keddan, the station manager, expressing confidence that the layer of thick shale sealing the In Salah reservoir would hold the CO2 for good: "If it contained gas for millions of years without leakage, why would it start leaking now?" said Keddan, according to the AP.
Carbon dioxide is actively being stored at depth in a sandstone saline reservoir as part of the In Salah Gas Project in Krechba, Algeria [1].
We reacted end member components of a heterolithic sandstone and shale unit that forms the upper section of the In Salah Gas Project carbon storage reservoir in Krechba, Algeria with supercritical CO2, brine, and with/without cement at reservoir conditions to develop experimentally constrained geochemical models for use in reactive transport simulations.
In Salah, hidden deep in the Sahara desert some 700 miles south of Algiers, is operated by oil and gas giant BP, Norway's Statoil, and Algerian state oil and gas firm Sonatrach.
In Salah cuts the CO2 to 0.3% but, instead of simply venting the removed CO2 as many gas operations do, pumps it into an aquifer below the gas reservoir.
In Salah Al-Din, also where some of the most vulnerable children are living, the Provincial Council vowed to include Child Welfare as an agenda item in its work plan for the coming year.
