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DOE selects 2 projects to demonstrate feasibility of enhanced water recovery; producing usable water from CO2 storage sites

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The two projects were competitively selected from the five Brine Extraction Storage Test (BEST) projects awarded in September 2015. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects that will test emerging enhanced water recovery (EWR) technologies for their potential to produce useable water from CO 2 storage sites. cost share).

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Denbury to Acquire Encore for $4.5B Transaction; Creates One of the Largest Crude Oil Upstream North American Independents and One of the Largest CO2 EOR Platforms

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The longer lead-time of CO 2 project development in the Rockies is ideally matched with a strong growth profile from low-risk development of unconventional resource plays in the Bakken oil shale in North Dakota and the Haynesville shale in North Louisiana. Encore is an excellent fit with Denbury’s CO 2 EOR program.

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Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

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TCEP will begin delivering CO 2 to Whiting when the plant commences operations in late 2014 or early 2015; construction is scheduled to begin at the end of this year. Captured CO2 will be further cleaned and compressed, and then transported by pipeline to an existing regional CO 2 pipeline or, potentially, to a nearby EOR field.

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