W King, Carey Gürcan Gülen Stuart M Cohen Nuñez-Lopez, Vanessa For the 'fast' scenarios 3 and 4, there is a much larger quantity of CO<sub>2</sub> captured to serve the demand for EOR in the first two years <p><strong>Figure 10.</strong> For the 'fast' scenarios 3 and 4, there is a much larger quantity of CO<sub>2</sub> captured to serve the demand for EOR in the first two years. The assumed commodity prices (oil, CO<sub>2</sub>, natural gas, coal) are the same in scenarios 3 and 4 as in scenarios 1 and 2.</p> <p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>This letter compares several bounding cases for understanding the economic viability of capturing large quantities of anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub> from coal-fired power generators within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas electric grid and using it for pure CO<sub>2</sub> enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the onshore coastal region of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico. All captured CO<sub>2</sub> in excess of that needed for EOR is sequestered in saline formations at the same geographic locations as the oil reservoirs but at a different depth. We analyze the extraction of oil from the same set of ten reservoirs within 20- and five-year time frames to describe how the scale of the carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) network changes to meet the rate of CO<sub>2</sub> demand for oil recovery. Our analysis shows that there is a negative system-wide net present value (NPV) for all modeled scenarios. The system comes close to breakeven economics when capturing CO<sub>2</sub> from three coal-fired power plants to produce oil via CO<sub>2</sub>-EOR over 20 years and assuming no CO<sub>2</sub> emissions penalty. The NPV drops when we consider a larger network to produce oil more quickly (21 coal-fired generators with CO<sub>2</sub> capture to produce 80% of the oil within five years). Upon applying a CO<sub>2</sub> emissions penalty of 60$2009/tCO<sub>2</sub> to fossil fuel emissions to ensure that coal-fired power plants with CO<sub>2</sub> capture remain in baseload operation, the system economics drop significantly. We show near profitability for the cash flow of the EOR operations only; however, this situation requires relatively cheap electricity prices during operation.</p> eor;system economics drop;power plants;oil recovery;CO 2;ccus;Electric Reliability Council;npv;CO 2 demand;anthropogenic CO 2;scenarios 3;CO 2 emissions penalty;Environmental Science 2013-09-09
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