To: EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0495 

Date: 08/03/2015 

Re: Correspondence between Mike Monea (SaskPower) and Nick Hutson (EPA) 

From: Michael Monea [mailto:MMonea@saskpower.com] 

Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 11:31 AM 

To: Hutson, Nick 

Cc: Sandra Beingessner 

Subject: RE: follow-up to our conversation at GHGT-12 

Nick, how are you doing? 

I want to give you a bit of an update on things.... First Boundary Dam...We are running about 75% 

capture, roughly 2,600 tonnes/d of 99.999% CO2. Cenovus Energy is phasing in our CO2 so we will have 

five months of lower sales for EOR to Cenovus. This works out quite well since we are optimizing some

of the equipment to reach full capacity at 3,200 tonnes/d. We should be able to ramp up our plant to 

optimum production in a few weeks. We are now commissioning the Aquistore storage well to have it 

ready for five month of large volumes of CO2 storage. I am experiencing some blocked perforations, the 

well has been sitting for two years, but I should be able to fix the well up. I have Schlumberger working 

with me so I could not ask for a more experienced technical service company. We should have it ready 

to receive CO2 next week unless something more difficult presents itself. The test facility CCTF will be 

turned over to Hitachi Japan at the end of March, it is running a few months late and more costs due to 

time lost on the CCTF moving workers over to the BD3 project. 

 

The Boundary Dam power generation side is producing more power than we estimated, I had hoped to 

see over 155 megawatts on the new plant, we have seen 170 megawatts of generation which is 

great. Also our parasitic load seems to be much less than expected, we anticipated 110 net megawatts,

but now will see well over 120 megawatts of net power. We do need to see the capture plant run at 

100% so we do see the true parasitic load. 

When can you come up and visit our plant and have a discussion Nick?? 

All the best.... 

Mike 

Michael J. Monea, P.Eng., P.Geo., ICD.D

SaskPower| President, Carbon Capture & Storage Initiatives 

p. 306-566-3132 |email (mmonea@saskpower.com) | saskpowerccs.com

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From: Hutson, Nick [mailto:Hutson.Nick@epa.gov] 

Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:18 AM 

To: Michael Monea 

Subject: RE: follow-up to our conversation at GHGT-12 
Hi Mike, 

Happy New Year. I hope you and your family had a joyous Holiday season! 

I told you (warned you) that I’d be checking in with you regularly to check on the status of the Boundary 

Dam project. As I’ve indicated to you several times, we are very interested in the project and what can 

be learned from it. I hope you’re still enjoying the successful operation at you saw at the start-up.

I’m wondering if you might be available next week sometime for a brief chat? 

Let me know; and, if so, please suggest a few times when you can be available. 

Best regards, 

Nick 

Nick Hutson, PhD 

Energy Strategies Group 

Office of Air & Radiation 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 

tel: +1 919 541 2968 

email: hutson.nick@epa.gov