Blue Flint, a Midwest AgEnergy company based in North Dakota, has begun drilling a stratigraphic test well to study the feasibility of underground storage of carbon dioxide through carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS).
The milestone kicks-off Midwest AgEnergy’s larger initiative called Vision Carbon ZERO, a multi-phased approach that will help the company to reduce its carbon emissions to zero.
Each year Blue Flint produces more than 200,000 tonnes of CO2, which is subsequently scrubbed and released into the atmosphere.
Carbon ZERO will remove the by-product of CO2 from the plant and store it safely underground in a suitable geologic formation.
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