Carbon dioxide-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects in North America found their early beginnings in the 1970s and 1980s, via natural sourcing from the Colorado-located McElmo Dome and Sheep Mountain sources, coupled with the New Mexico Bravo Dome, and high capacity pipelines serving projects in the Permian Basin and surrounding region.
Over time these projects began to proliferate. In Mississippi, the Jackson Dome supplied natural reserves to regional projects surrounding the Mid-Southern US region. Exxon’s large natural gas processing facility near La Barge, Wyoming recovered carbon dioxide (CO2) for regional floods, much of which into the Powder River Basin. Gas processing plants located in West Texas, such as the Century and Val Verde plants, also serve the Permian Basin’s demands, while ammonia plants in Kansas and Oklahoma further serve regional CO2 floods.
And I personally worked on Burlington Resources’ Lost Cabin, Wyoming gas processing plant’s CO2 by-product, which also eventually went into the network for recovery of oil in the Powder River Basin.
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