Well-to-Refinery Carbon Intensity Assessment for CO2-EOR Operations in Alberta

Muhammad Y. Jabbar's study evaluates the well-to-refinery gate emissions of Alberta's CO2-enhanced oil recovery operations. The analysis covers 2,339 economically feasible field-pools across 8 scenarios, using the OPGEE model with varying oil and CO2 offset prices. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-25.

Use Cases

• Model greenhouse gas emissions from CO2-EOR operations based on integrated technoeconomic and life cycle assessment.
• Analyze the relationship between oil production rates and carbon intensity based on Spearman analysis results.
• Optimize CO2-EOR project economics based on variables like net present value and gas flooding injection ratio.
• Assess the potential for CO2 storage in Alberta's oil fields based on the stated capacity of 1.1 billion tons.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on a large initial pool of 13,948 field-pools from a provincial database.
• Results provide specific carbon intensity ranges from 7.0 to 32 g CO2e/MJ under base-case conditions.
• The study framework incorporates multiple economic and operational variables, including oil price and CO2 offset price.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Alberta-specific study scope.

Provenance

Source

Muhammad Y. Jabbar via figshare.

Collection Method

Integrated technoeconomic and life cycle assessment using the Oil Production Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimator (OPGEE) coupled with a technoeconomic assessment model.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-25 23:43:25; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Alberta, Canada.