Summit to hold public meetings about proposed Midwest CCS pipeline

Summit Carbon Solutions, a division of Summit Agricultural Group, plans to hold meetings with landowners in Iowa over the next two months regarding its proposed 710-mile Midwest Carbon Express carbon dioxide pipeline.

The pipeline, part of a planned carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) system, would cross 30 Iowa counties, as well as parts of Nebraska, Minnesota, and South Dakota, gathering CO₂ captured at ethanol plants and other industrial agricultural sources for shipment to sequestration sites in North Dakota.

Summit expects the system to be operational in 2024, capturing and storing more than 12 million tonnes/year (tpy) of carbon dioxide. It has contracted with at least 31 ethanol plants for long-term underground sequestration.

Navigator CO₂ Ventures Ltd plans to build its own 12-million tpy Midwest pipeline, running 1,200 miles from ethanol plants in Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Minnesota to a sequestration site in Illinois.

Navigator completed a non-binding open season earlier this year and expects to begin phased start-up of its CCS system in late 2024.

Source: Oil & Gas Journal