ZeroGen has assembled a team of commercial, engineering, scientific, and industry advisors from around the world, including its own highly qualified technical staff, to undertake a feasibility study which will investigate the economic, environmental, social, regulatory, and technical considerations of the project.
Some of the expert organisations committed to working on the ZeroGen project together with Stanwell include:
EPRI
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has been involved in the development of ZeroGen by providing expert peer reviews and technical support. EPRI was established in 1973 and is based in the United States of America. It is an independent, non-profit centre for public interest energy and environmental research and is the world’s largest electric power research organisation. EPRI brings together members, participants, the institute's scientists and engineers, and other leading experts to work collaboratively on solutions to the challenges of electric power. These solutions span nearly every area of electricity generation, delivery, and use, including health, safety, and environment. EPRI's members represent over 90 per cent of the electricity generated in the US. For more information on EPRI, please visit its web site.
Shell
Royal Dutch Shell has globally recognised coal gasification capabilities. Shell provided the Lead Engineer role in the development of the power plant engineering designs. Since the 1970s, Shell has continued to build on its gasification technologies and today is in the process of either developing design engineering packages or aiding in the start up and commissioning of 12 coal gasification plants in China. Shell Coal Gasification technology is used at one of the world's first IGCC power plants at Buggenum, The Netherlands. For more information on Shell, please visit its web site.
MBA Petroleum Consultants
MBA Petroleum Consultants is responsible for geotechnical evaluation of the ZeroGen CO2 geosequestration site. MBA Petroleum Consultants is the only consulting group in Australia with extensive knowledge and experience in CO2 geosequestration. The company co-ordinates the input of a wide range of consultants specialising in geology, geophysics, petroleum engineering, reservoir engineering, petrophysics and petrology. For more information on MBA Petroleum Consultants, please visit its web site.
Resource Land Management Services
Resource Land Management Services (RLMS) undertook the CO2 pipeline corridor study and has provided advice on environmental, cultural heritage and land tenure matters in relation to the pipeline and the CO2 geosequestration site. RLMS is a Queensland-based environmental, mapping and land management consultancy specialising in route corridor selection, negotiations, acquisitions, and government approvals for the energy, transport, communications and exploration sectors. For more information on RLMS, please visit its web site.
Upstream Petroleum
Upstream Petroleum is managing the evaluation of drilling operations for ZeroGen. Upstream Petroleum is an Australian integrated oil and gas service provider offering contract operations maintenance of production facilities and consultancy services to the exploration and production industry across a broad range of upstream professional disciplines, from well completions to facility management. Upstream Petroleum has a highly experienced team that provides hands-on services in contract production operations, project management, well services and sub-sea systems. For more information on Upstream Petroleum, please visit its web site.
GE Energy
GE Energy provided key input into design aspects associated with synthesis gas (syngas) composition specification and associated engineering of the gas turbine power generator for ZeroGen.
GE Energy has unmatched experience in coal syngas conversion to electricity using gas turbines. GE Energy has been serving the power industry for more than a century. Since installation of the first steam turbine in 1901, the installed base of steam and gas turbines for power generation has grown to more than 10,000 units, representing more than 875 GW of installed capacity in more than 120 countries.
GE has syngas fired gas turbine units worldwide, including the first coal gasification plant in 1978, the first IGCC plant in the US (Coolwater), a 250 MW IGCC plant in 1995 (Polk, Florida), and is the syngas fired unit operation leader with 3,415 MW installed in eight countries. Syngas experience on 22 operating gas turbine units now exceeds 600,000 operating hours. For more information on GE Energy, please visit its web site.