Swan Hills Synfuels is developing the Swan Hills ISCG/Sagitawah Power Project in Alberta. The project represents a unique combination of very deep, high-efficiency ISCG, CO2 capture and storage with proximity to CO2 EOR customers, and combined cycle-power generation to result in a cost-effective clean electricity generation system.
The Swan Hills ISCG/Sagitawah Power Project is a first-of-its-kind in North America, integrating ISCG technology with carbon capture and storage to create a clean low-carbon syngas that will fuel a new 300 MW combined cycle power generation facility located near Whitecourt, Alberta.
The full scale Cdn$1.5 billion project will commence service in 2015. Expansion and/or replication potential is significant.
The project will use ISCG to tap deep, unmineable coal to produce syngas that will be processed in a conventional gas plant to remove CO2 as a byproduct stream. The syngas will then be pipelined to a combined cycle power generation station to produce low emissions electricity.
The captured CO2 will be sold to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) customers in the Swan Hills area.
The project consists of four major components:
