Name and Location
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, Texas, US.

Client
NRG Energy and JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation.

Project Description
The EOR project involves the separation and capture of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from flue gas emitted from Unit 8 of NRG Energy’s WA Parish generation station, a coal-fired power generation plant, located about 60 km south-west of Houston, Texas, and the injection of the CO₂ into nearby West Ranch oilfield to boost crude oil production.

The CO₂ capture system will comprise a flue-gas quencher, absorber and regeneration system, CO₂ compression unit and utility facilities. It will have a CO₂ capture efficiency of 90%. The CO₂ capture efficiency indicates the ratio of CO₂ recovered from the flue gas by the process against total amount of CO₂ contained in the flue gas.

Value
Not stated.

Duration
The system is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2016.

Latest Developments
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for the CO2 capture system from Petra Nova, a special-purpose company of NRG Energy and one of the companies implementing the project, through MHI America, a wholly owned subsidiary of MHI, in the US.

MHI’s CO₂ capture technology is the KM CDR process, which uses a proprietary KS- high-performance solvent for CO2 absorption and desorption jointly developed by MHI and the Kansai Electric Power.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
MHI (CO₂ capture technology).

On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.

Contact Details for Project Information
NRG Energy media relations, Karen Cleeve, tel +1 609 524 4608.
MHI, tel +81 3 6716 3111 or fax +81 3 6716 5800.