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Permalink Reply by The Shadow yesterday

How do they plan to store the carbon?  How many places are projected to be utilized?

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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant 14 hours ago

IT Is not a Sequestration project.  It is An EOR project.  Likely for Denbury.  

Denbury Inc. was a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and extraction via enhanced oil recovery, utilizing carbon dioxide to extract petroleum from fields that have been previously exploited. In November 2023 it was acquired by ExxonMobil.

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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Rock Man 12 hours ago

Using ENVERUS, I think I managed to zero in on the possible "end game" area for this CO2 pipeline. The only ExxonMobil / Denbury active oil field in North Louisiana is Delhi Field (Franklin / Richland Parish Line) near the town of that name.

Shallow (3500') strat trap with close to 80 wells. Unit covers 13,600 acres and field is over 12 miles long.

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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant 12 hours ago

Most activity in RichlandParish is related to to Meta's Hyperion AI Data Center. I don't think that project needs oil.  Does the Delhi Field produce natural gas?

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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Rock Man 12 hours ago

As per my note, Delhi Field is oil production. Paluxy / Tuscaloosa sands. Discovered around 2020.

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Permalink Reply by Hale Yayuh 1 hour ago

Hmmm... I think Delhi field is really old, not 2020 vintage. There hasn't been an oilfield discovery around here in many a year, lol. Maybe that is when they started EOR or something but it's old.

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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant 12 hours ago

I agree.  The Delhi Field makes sense from what we know.

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Oil & Gas ProPermalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant 12 hours ago

Northwest Louisiana landowners may face a fight over a pipeline, possible land expropriation

• BY LIZ SWAINE | Staff writer

·       CapturePoint Red River Pipeline Dept. of Conservation Hearing Letter

• Garrett said he has not received a notice. A Haughton resident on the Interested Parties list told the Shreveport Bossier City Advocate her family had also received nothing. David Fite said that he had gotten notices for six other people on the list; none of whom get mail at his house.
• The notices are alerting property owners to a public hearing on Nov. 17 in Baton Rouge at which CapturePoint will make the case that the pipeline is needed to “transport carbon dioxide…for use in connection with enhanced oil recovery.”
• Enhanced oil recovery is the key phrase here, said District 1 State Representative Danny McCormick, who is also in the oil & gas business.  When a project says that is its goal, the state provides a pathway for private expropriation, a power that can ordinarily only be wielded by a government. 
• “Our Louisiana Constitution pretty much makes it the last resort,” he said. 
• “It has to be for a public purpose, such as you have to have pipelines to transfer natural gas, so people can heat their homes, and you have to have roads for people to travel on, and you have to have electrical lines. You know, those things definitely benefit the public. But you shouldn't be able to use it just to benefit a company and not the public as a whole." 
• In its filing, CapturePoint has made its ‘public purpose’ argument. The pipeline should “allow for the greater recovery of hydrocarbon reserves from mature fields…incrementally lessening the United States’ dependence on foreign oil…”
• Fite agrees that the process will recover more hydrocarbons. “This is a great deal for the industry,” he said. Fite says CapturePoint will flood the Midway and Magnolia oil fields in southern Arkansas with CO2, “and they will double the ultimate reserve recovery of those two fields. I mean, it’s big. Of course, it would have to be to lay that much pipe.” The CO2 works by loosening oil that is trapped in rocks.
• Garrett, who repairs lawn mowers for a living, intends to make the drive to the public hearing in Baton Rouge to fight the pipeline, but he knows it will be a case of David vs. Goliath. He said there is a reason why the company chose a rural route.
• CapturePoint's map of the route of the Red River Pipeline.
• CapturePoint
• “The common attitude that I have perceived is, well, we'll run this through a lightly populated area. I mean, minimal population, and that way there will be Dozens of local landowners should have received, in October, information from a Texas-based company called CapturePoint about a pipeline project that intends to go through their property.
• The company has asked the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy for permission to construct and operate the 125-mile Red River Pipeline Louisiana LLC. CapturePoint is also requesting a ‘certificate of public convenience and necessity’ for the project.
• This is the part that made Shreveport oil and gas operator and producer David Fite take notice.
• Fite has gotten letters about public hearings from DOCE before, but the certificate of public convenience and necessity is something different that comes with the threat of eminent domain. The certificate is the first step in potential land expropriation.
• CapturePoint’s plan
• According to information provided by CapturePoint, the pipeline will transport carbon dioxide “for the enhanced recovery of liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons” from the Midway Unit oil field in Lafayette County, Arkansas, to the Robeline Gas Treating Facility in Natchitoches Parish, some 125 miles away.
• Red River Pipeline LLC Filing
• The 84 page filing of Red River Pipeline LA LLC to the Department of Conservation and Energy.
• Fite believes that the “public convenience and necessity” verbiage should mean that the pipeline is public use. “So therefore, it ought to be open access, they should be required to let anybody transport whatever it is they're transporting and give you a tap at a reasonable rate,” Fite said. A tap would allow gas or liquid to leave or enter the pipeline, or CO2 to be used.
• Because the pipeline is not for public use, he is not supportive. However, he does not plan to go to the DOCE public hearing in Baton Rouge to speak against it. “The fix is in and I can assure you, there ain’t no need to waste a bunch of time,” he said. “I’m going to take the money and run.”
• Larry Garrett plans to neither run nor take any money offered. The company wants right-of-way on 75 acres Garrett and his brother own near the tiny hamlet of Fryeburg in rural Bienville Parish. The two run a small tree farm and grow pine trees on their acreage.
• Some of his cousins live nearby, and Garrett fears for their safety if a pipeline carrying the odorless, colorless carbon dioxide is built against his wishes, on his property.   
• “At some point, this pipeline is going to start leaking, or break, or you know, catastrophic failure. I mean, that's a given. It's going to happen, and CO2 displaces the oxygen in the air, so anything and everything that requires oxygen to function will cease to function. That includes human beings, for God's sakes.”

Leaks do happen although large ones are rare, says the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage. One serious leak did occur in 2020 in Satartia, Mississippi. Forty-five people were hospitalized, treated and released, and 200 were evacuated after a landslide caused a pipeline to rupture, releasing a dense cloud of CO2.

Fite and Garrett are two of several dozen owners of property in Sabine, DeSoto, Red River, Bienville, Webster, Claiborne and Natchitoches parishes that the Red River Pipeline will either negotiate to use or possibly attempt to expropriate.

The property owners, called ‘Interested Parties’, are far-flung. Some have local mailing addresses in Shreveport, Bossier City and Haughton and other places in Caddo, and Bossier. Some are in Kansas City, Mo., Kennewick, Washington, and elsewhere. Some are receiving the public meeting notices. Some are not.

 

CapturePoint Red River Pipeline Dept. of Conservation Hearing Letter

Garrett said he has not received a notice. A Haughton resident on the Interested Parties list told the Shreveport Bossier City Advocate her family had also received nothing. David Fite said that he had gotten notices for six other people on the list; none of whom get mail at his house.

The notices are alerting property owners to a public hearing on Nov. 17 in Baton Rouge at which CapturePoint will make the case that the pipeline is needed to “transport carbon dioxide…for use in connection with enhanced oil recovery.”

Enhanced oil recovery is the key phrase here, said District 1 State Representative Danny McCormick, who is also in the oil & gas business.  When a project says that is its goal, the state provides a pathway for private expropriation, a power that can ordinarily only be wielded by a government. 

“Our Louisiana Constitution pretty much makes it the last resort,” he said. 

“It has to be for a public purpose, such as you have to have pipelines to transfer natural gas, so people can heat their homes, and you have to have roads for people to travel on, and you have to have electrical lines. You know, those things definitely benefit the public. But you shouldn't be able to use it just to benefit a company and not the public as a whole." 

In its filing, CapturePoint has made its ‘public purpose’ argument. The pipeline should “allow for the greater recovery of hydrocarbon reserves from mature fields…incrementally lessening the United States’ dependence on foreign oil…”

Fite agrees that the process will recover more hydrocarbons. “This is a great deal for the industry,” he said. Fite says CapturePoint will flood the Midway and Magnolia oil fields in southern Arkansas with CO2, “and they will double the ultimate reserve recovery of those two fields. I mean, it’s big. Of course, it would have to be to lay that much pipe.” The CO2 works by loosening oil that is trapped in rocks.

 Garrett, who repairs lawn mowers for a living, intends to make the drive to the public hearing in Baton Rouge to fight the pipeline, but he knows it will be a case of David vs. Goliath. He said there is a reason why the company chose a rural route.

 

“The common attitude that I have perceived is, well, we'll run this through a lightly populated area. I mean, minimal population, and that way there will be minimal impact if there is a problem.”  “Well, I do not appreciate being considered minimal.”

Garrett said one lawmaker he asked for help told him he needed to hire a lawyer. “I don't have money to hire a lawyer. Sorry, you know that's what I elected them to do for God's sakes.”

 “I’m gonna let them know that there are people in this state who don’t want their land confiscated,” he said of his trip to the hearing in Baton Rouge. However, he has no belief that he will be successful in his quest.

“Without a whole lot of money, and even with a whole lot of money, they’re still gonna win.”

 

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