Canada’s Advantage Energy pushes more CCS

Advantage Energy, which in April created a joint venture to pursue the commercialisation of its low-cost modular carbon capture and storage (MCCS) technology, said June 2 it had signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) that could lead to the capture and sequestration of as much as 1mn mt of CO₂ annually.

The MOUs, reached between Entropy, the joint venture company, and four large emitters in western Canada, “represent an important step” in the commercial deployment of MCCS, Entropy said, and demonstrate its versatility across a broad range of applications and jurisdictions.

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In Alberta, oil sands producer Athabasca Oil will deploy MCCS at its Leismer in situ facility, where it could potentially capture up to 520,000 mt/yr of CO₂, leading to the first net zero oil sands production in Canada.

Also in Alberta, a “well-capitalised” public midstream company has engaged Entropy to evaluate the deployment of MCCS at two separate gas processing facilities, representing the potential capture of up to 102,000 mt/yr of CO₂.

Black Swan Energy has agreed to work with Entropy to evaluate the development of MCCS at its Aiken Creek gas plant in BC, with the first deployment designed to capture 9,000 mt/yr of CO₂, and additional stages expected to raise the total to 150,000 mt/yr.

And a “northeast British Columbia-focused midstream company” will work with Entropy to evaluate MCCS at two of its gas processing plants, with the potential to capture up to 185,000 mt/yr of CO₂.

Scoping design, engineering, and subsurface evaluations are underway for each of the projects under MOU, with varying degrees of advancement, Entropy said.

As well, major equipment for the first phase of Entropy’s previously-announced MCCS deployment at Advantage Energy’s Glacier gas plant in Alberta has been purchased and preparations for construction are underway. That project is expected to capture and store up to 182,000 mt/yr of CO₂ across two phases.