There needs to be better education about the benefits of merchant carbon dioxide (CO2) to communities, according to South Dakota-based industrial gas distributor A-OX Welding.
Tiffany Anderson, Vice-President of Administration at A-OX, said the question of CO2 and its uses or storage is front of minds right now in her state, which is being impacted by a major pipeline for CO2 sequestration alongside some neighbouring states.
Speaking to gasworld US for the upcoming August edition, Anderson said the demand for merchant CO2 was still rising but needed to be better understood in a world with CO2 pipelines being built out right now.
In South Dakota’s case, Summit Carbon Solutions’ base pipeline project is expected run around 2,500 miles and to transport and permanently store 12 million tonnes of CO2 each year. The South Dakota element of the project is about 470 miles of pipeline.
