One significant benefit of GreatPoint Energy’s pipeline grade bluegas™ process is the ability to locate gasification plants far from major population centers and gas markets.

As a result, it is both possible and desirable to locate production facilities in regions of the country where CO₂ can be sold and safely sequestered using currently available commercial technologies for oil and methane extraction.
For example, Wyoming’s oil fields are, in most cases, declining in production, yet most of the oil forming the deposits in these fields remains underground. While unrecoverable by traditional production methods, significant amounts of oil in these fields can be recovered through enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques comprising the injection of a CO₂ stream into an oil reserve. After the oil is displaced, the CO₂ remains sequestered safely underground.

According to the Wyoming Geological Survey (WGS), approximately 8 billion barrels of original oil in place (OOIP) remain in Wyoming fields and between 5-15 percent of this OOIP can be recovered with EOR technologies.  Therefore, a broad application of EOR using CO₂ produced by GreatPoint Energy could increase the state's ultimate oil production by anywhere from 400 million to 1.2 billion barrels and safely sequester this greenhouse gas to help prevent global warming.

Unlike conventional gasification technology, the bluegas™ plants produce an EOR/sequestration-ready stream of CO₂ with no additional cost except for compression. As a result, and when combined with bluegas™ higher overall efficiency (when burnt to produce power) bluegas™ CO₂ emissions are likely to be 40 percent less than equivalent coal-fired power plants.

Carbon Footprint Analysis

(For further information please see GreatPoint Energy’s Emissions Whitepaper)