SOUTHWEST CARBON PARTNERSHIP

The Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration (SWP) is one of seven regional partnerships established in 2003 by the US DOE to study carbon management strategies. Since the creation of the partnership SWP has completed a number of studies (Phase I, Phase II), but our most exciting work has been the Phase III study now underway at Farnsworth Oil Field... At the onset of the project, SWP worked in close partnership with the previous field operator, Chaparral Energy LLC, an industrial partner that was engaged in an Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) project in Farnsworth Oil Field (FWU) in the northeast Texas panhandle. Ownership of the field has changed since we began in 2013, but the project continues. The EOR project is using CO 2 captured from an ethanol and a fertilizer plant to increase the oil recovery from this mature field. SWP's role is characterization of the field, monitoring the surface and subsurface for evidence of any change in the background level of CO 2, and..

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