The Carbon Management Industry is here. Oil and gas companies are scrambling to figure out how to rebrand their company one more time to reflect the newest consolidation of energy, ag and waste management.
Warren Martin, executive director, Kansas Strong, explains where their Carbon Management industry is at.
“We already have some independents that are both in oil and gas and also in ethanol,” Martin said. “I think that there's definitely the fields to be able to store CO2 and capture that carbon here.”
So is there an opportunity for carbon management in Kansas?
“Yes, there's an opportunity here,” Martin said. “Just like in Kansas, there's an opportunity for wind and for solar. But the same problem exists for carbon capture as exists for wind and solar. And that is the fact that we're remote.”
Martin continues explaining how the energy fields, population centers and carbon storage fields are not in close proximity to each other.
“Where you want the electricity from the wind and where you want the electricity from the solar is not anywhere near where it's being produced here in Kansas,” Martin said. “And in the same way, Where we can store it here in Kansas is not anywhere really near the major carbon producers that we need to be able to do that carbon capture.”
He added that there are also some secondary markets emerging in the state as well.
"It's really kind of put a secondary business for some of our seismic friends out there that normally are trying to help us find oil and gas," Martin said. "They're spending a lot more time monitoring carbon capture fields. We also have quite a few ethanol plants here in the state that are trying to figure out ways to transfer their carbon to natural gas fields for secondary recovery efforts nearby."
He added some carbon pipeline news as well.
"And looking at pipelines, the University of Kansas is looking at and the Kansas Geological Service is looking at, our survey is looking at trying to find a way to build pipelines carbon pipelines to be able to get CO2 from ethanol plants to these fields to be able to use for secondary and tertiary recovery efforts and maybe get more life out of these fields while at the same time taking care of the carbon issue."
Martin has been very active educating and promoting the benefits of oil and gas, including tax revenues, community development projects and everyday uses for petroleum products.
"Informing the public about the many ways the Kansas oil and natural gas industry contributes to our state and our nation is an important part of our mission," Martin said. "Kansas Strong has implemented a multi-platform campaign to reach Kansans with our message. See how Kansas Strong is helping educate and inform Kansans about the critical role our industry plays."
Martin provides periodic messages dedicated to topics related to the oil & natural gas industry and how they impact our lives. He has appeared at over 200 events in the past year.
"So Kansas is a unique oil and gas producing state. We're 11th leading producing state in the nation. Yet we do not have big oil here in Kansas. We don't we do not have any of the major oil companies here. Only one that it could even slightly be considered a major oil producing company that actually does production here in the state," Martin said. "We have a lot of pipeline companies. We have a lot of refining companies. But oil and gas production is predominantly done by local, independent oil and gas producers across the state. We are almost exclusively a marginal well state."
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