Petra Nova

To satisfy the Clean Coal Power Initiative requirements, the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology put a monitoring plan in place to keep track of the injection and movement of the CO2 beneath the surface and in the rock structures at West Ranch.

Due primarily to outages of the host natural gas cogeneration unit, the project missed its carbon sequestration goal by 17% over its first three years of operation.

Eneos' strategy was to gain expertise in carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology through this move, and they announced plans to restart the unit in the second quarter of 2023.

This process was developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kansai Electric Power and utilizes a high performing proprietary solvent called KS-1.

[4] The carbon dioxide from the Petra Nova Initiative will eventually end up in sandstone in the Frio Formation of the West Ranch oil field.