WGA Involvement with Western Regional Partnerships Doug Larson Western Interstate Energy Board September 30, 2003

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WGA Involvement with Western Regional
PartnershipsDoug LarsonWestern Interstate
Energy BoardSeptember 30, 2003
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Outline of Presentation

• WGA Involvement with Western partnership efforts
• Western Governors policies
• Future WGA role

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WGA Involvement (1)

• October 2002 DOE Fossil presentation to WIEB
  Board
• December 2002 Governors approve science policy
• Ensure research addresses Western policy issues
• Promote research by Western institutions
• January 2003 WGA hosted scoping meeting with
  potential carbon sequestration partnerships

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WGA Involvement (2)

• March 2003 Governors letter of support for
  each of the western proposals
• April 2003 Briefing of WIEB Board by Western
  partnership proposals
• September 2003
• WGA policy on climate change
• Sequestration issue arising in transmission
  planning discussions

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Excerpt of WGA Climate Change Policy

• Federal agencies should invest in science
  programs in Western states which are able to
  pursue scientific questions relevant to the West.
  
• Western Governors support the implementation
  of tools such as carbon sequestration that have
  broad public support and can help address the
  unique conditions of the West.

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Potential Future WGA Activities

• Coordinate public outreach among Western
  partnerships
• Foster information exchange among Western
  partnerships
• Promote linkages between industry, academia,
  environmental groups and government policy makers
• Coordinate the GIS mapping process

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4 of 7 Regional Partnerships in the West
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West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration
Partnership
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Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon
Sequestration
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Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon
Sequestration

• States
• Arizona
• Colorado
• New Mexico
• Oklahoma
• Utah
• Parts of Kansas, Texas, Wyoming

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Southwest Regional Partnership

• Large coal-fired power plants
• Oil and gas production
• Existing CO2 pipelines for enhanced oil recovery
• Water constraints

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Southwest Regional Partnership

• Industry Partners
• Power utilities
• Public Service Co. of New Mexico (PNM)
• Pacificorp
• Intermountain Power Agency
• Tucson Electric Power
• Oklahoma Gas Electric
• Energy providers (oil, gas, coal)
• Yates Petroleum, ChevronTexaco
• Marathon, Occidental Permian
• ConocoPhillips, Burlington
• Gas infrastructure (CO 2 pipelines)
• Kinder Morgan

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Southwest Regional Partnership

• U. S. Federal Government Partners
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Sandia National Laboratory
• U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
• Various Additional Partners
• Navajo Nation
• Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission
• (IOGCC)
• Western Governors Association
• Gas Technology Institute (GTI)
• Petroleum Resource Recovery Center (PRRC)
• Waste- management Education Research
  Council (WERC)

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Southwest Regional Partnership

• State Partners
• Arizona Universities Government
• Arizona Geological Survey
• Arizona State University
• Colorado Universities Government
• Colorado Geological Survey
• Colorado State University
• New Mexico Universities Government
• New Mexico Oil Cons. Division
• New Mex. Bureau of Geology
• New Mexico Envir. Department
• NM Inst. of Mining and Technology
• New Mexico State University
• Dine College (Navajo Nation)

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Southwest Regional Partnership

• Oklahoma Universities Government
• Oklahoma Geological Survey
• University of Oklahoma
• Oklahoma State University
• Sarkeys Energy Center
• Utah Universities Government
• Utah Geological Survey
• University of Utah
• Utah State University
• Utah AGRC
• Utah Division of Air Quality
• Utah Energy Office
• Utah Division of Oil Gas Mining

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Northern Rockies and Great Plains Regional Carbon
Sequestration Partnership
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Northern Rockies and Great Plains Regional Carbon
Sequestration Partnership

• States
• Idaho
• Montana
• South Dakota

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Northern Rockies and Great Plains Regional Carbon
Sequestration Partnership

• Terrestrial sequestration as well as geologic
• Optimize the area's carbon storage potential
• Enhance market-based carbon-storage methods

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Partners in Northern Rockies and Great Plains

• Montana State University
• Environmental Financial Products Boise State
  University
• The Sampson Group Texas AM
• New Directions NALLC University of Idaho
• South Dakota School of Mines
  Technology    
• Nez Perce Tribe
• Idaho National Engineering and The Confederated
  Salish
• Environmental Laboratory and Kootenai
  Tribes
• Los Alamos National Laboratory Montana
  Governors Carbon
• Sequestration Working Group
• National Carbon Offset Coalition

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Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership
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Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership

• States
• Minnesota,
• North Dakota,
• South Dakota,
• Montana,
• Wyoming
• Provinces
• Saskatchewan
• Manitoba

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Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership

• Low-rank (lignite and subbituminous) coal
• Williston and Power River basins
• Dakota Gasification facility and Weyburn project
• 29 coal-fired utilities
• 27 ethanol-production facilities

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Partners in Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership

• University of North Dakota - Energy
  Environmental Research Center
• Amerada Hess Corporation Basin Electric Power
  Cooperative
• North Dakota State University Dakota Gasification
  Company
• Western Governors Association Fisher Oil and Gas
• Environment Canada Great River Energy
• Minn. Pollution Control Agency Montana-Dakota
  Utilities Co.
• Montana DEQ Otter Tail Power Company
• N. Dakota Dept of Health Nexant-Bechtel
• N. Dakota Geological Survey NDIC Oil and Gas
  Division
• N.Dakota Industrial Commission Petroleum
  Technology Transfer Coun
• Prairie Public Television Interstate Oil and
  Gas Compact
• Commission