The Century Plant is a joint venture between SandRidge Energy Inc. and Occidental Petroleum Corp. It will extract carbon dioxide from natural gas that SandRidge recovers in the West Texas Overthrust, which Oxy would then use in its enhanced oil recovery. The Century Plant is a $1.2 billion investment.

The plant will go online in two segments. The first segment is expected to be completed in mid-2010, with the second in the first quarter of 2011.

Reportedly, the plant will increase SandRidge’s capability of producing methane from high-CO2 gas by five times and expand Oxy’s production by a minimum of 50,000 barrels of oil per day within five years.

Train 1

  • UOP Selexol
  • Ortloff CO2 Fractionation, including Dehydrator
  • OSBL - including control room, warehouse, RIE building, in-plant MCC/Switchgear building, inst air compressors, water tank, cooling tower

Train 2

  • UOP Selexol
  • Ortloff CO2 Fractionation, including Dehydrator
  • OSBL – MCC/Switchgear building, inst air, cooling tower, RIE building

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