The Alberta Carbon Trunk Line and the Benefits of CO2
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Abstract
The Alberta Carbon Trunk Line Update on the Words's Largest Carbon Capture and Storage Project Enhance Energy Inc. (Enhance), located in Alberta, Canada, specializes in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Along with its partner North West Redwater Partnership (NWRP), Enhance has developed a fully integrated CCS project incorporating gasification, CO 2 capture, transportation, storage and EOR. The project utilizes proven technology to provide a critical CO 2 gathering and distribution infrastructure, which will enable the cost-effective management of CO 2 emissions in Alberta, Canada. The project also demonstrates how Alberta's vast bitumen resources can be produced amid tightening environmental standards. At the heart of the proposed project is the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL), a 16”, 240 km pipeline, which will be fully operational in 2015. Laterals have been designed to allow for multiple entry points. CO 2 will be collected from various emitters such as coal fired power plants, upgrading/refining operations, petrochemicals and natural gas processing plants in and around Alberta's lndustrial Heartland. The CO 2 will then be transported to aging reservoirs in southern Alberta for storage in EOR projects. The ACTL will be able to access reservoirs which are capable of storing over two billion tonnes of CO 2 , and producing an additional one billion barrels of high quality light crude oil using CO 2 EOR. The ACTL will initially capture and store up to 1.6 million tonnes/year of CO 2 from the Agrium fertilizer manufacturing facilities and North West Redwater Partnership Sturgeon Refinery (NWRPSR). At full capacity the ACTL project will store 14.6 million tonnes/year of CO 2 , the equivalent of removing 2.6 million cars from Alberta's roads, the ACTL project will be the word's largest Once fully operational CCS development. This paper will provide an update on the progress being made on the project as the ACTL has moved passed the regulatory phase and is now completing detailed engineering, with procurement underway. The ACTL has received regulatory approval for its pipeline construction and landowners along the entire pipeline route are supportive of the project. The presentation will address the project's development and stress the importance of the support from stakeholders. The paper will also outline the benefits of the project, and will explain how it balances environmental sustainability and economic viability while garnering public support The project is significantly advanced and is being financially supported by the Governments of Alberta and the Government Canada; the former through the Carbon Capture and Storage Program in the amount of $495MM CDN, and the latter through the ecoEnergy Technology Initiative and Clean Energy Fund in the amount of $63MM CDN. The estimated total cost of the full project is $1.15B CDN. Susan Cole will present the paper at the GHG-T 11 Conference. Susan is the founder and President of Enhance. Ms. Cole is a professional engineer with over 20 years of experience in the energy industry. Prior to founding Enhance, Ms. Cole was manager of the Weyburn CO 2 Project in Saskatchewan, Canada, which is the largest industrial CO 2 capture, transportation, and EOR/secure storage project in the world. She managed initial approval, facility construction and start-up phases of this project. As project manager she was responsible for the project implementation, including overall project coordination, economic modeling and start up. The Weyburn project is currently injecting over 6,000 tonnes of CO 2 a day (or two million tonnes of CO 2 a year) and is very similar in design and concept to the ACTL CCS-EOR project.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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