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Figure 8.4.1 Weyburn CO 2 -enhanced oil recovery project
(a) The CO 2 is captured from a coal gasifi cation facility located in Buelah, North Dakota.
The gas is compressed to a liquid phase and transported via a 320 km pipeline to
the Weyburn and Midale oil fi elds for injection. Image provided by Dakota Gasifi cation
Company, reproduced with permission: http://ptrc.ca/+pub/image/NDKmap.jpg
(b) Cenovus' Weyburn fi eld and Apache's Midale fi eld are located in southeast
Saskatchewan, Canada. This project represents the fi rst time that an anthropogenic
source of CO 2 has been used for enhanced oil recovery. Image © Department of
Natural Resources Canada, all rights reserved, from : http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/
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