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Private operators, university and SITLA push central-Utah carbon sequestration hub plan
Summary
Urban Oil & Gas and University of Utah researchers described a proposal to store hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 in Navajo Sandstone pore space on SITLA-managed lands, saying the site is geologically suitable and could anchor regional CO2 pipeline corridors; developers requested regulatory and legislative support to drill demonstration wells.
Matt Kirby, president of Urban Oil and Gas, and Michael Schneider, the company—s director of subsurface, told the Natural Resources committee the company has secured a pore-space lease with the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) and is pursuing a commercial sequestration hub in central Utah. Kirby said the combination of geology, existing natural-gas infrastructure and nearby large CO2 emitters makes the area a strong candidate for large-scale geologic storage.
Schneider told the committee the Navajo…
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