Facts:

Main developer: ConocoPhillips

The Lost Cabin Gas Plant CCS project, in Wyoming, began construction in 2011. It is expected to begin operating in 2012 with a pre-combustion capture target of 1 million tonnes a year. ConocoPhillips' who now owns the natural gas processing facility, plan to reduce CO2 emissions, which in June 2010 were only granted temporary authorisation by state regulators. They granted a one-year extension allowing a maximum 60 Mmcf of CO2 per day. The maximum operating capacity at the plant is 313 million cubic feet (Mmcf) of gas per day. 

The extension is meant to allow ConocoPhillips to move forward with a deal with Denbury Resources - which has begun building a 232-mile-long pipeline, at a project cost of $400 million, to carry CO2 from Lost Cabin for use in EOR operations at Denbury's Belle Creek oilfield in southeast Montana. It is estimated that the injection project will increase oil production from existing wells from 1200 barrels per day to a peak response of 7000 barrels per day.

The project has obtained commercial agreements for EOR operations.

The Lost Cabin Gas Plant began operation under Louisiana Land and Exploration, a wholly owned subsidiary of Burlington Resources, in the spring of 1995. It was designed and built by URS.

Other information and press releases

Article on $400m CO2 pipeline project, 10 April 2012