An Economic Development Plan for Southern Louisiana. Non-Conventional Energy: 3 Opportunities

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1 An Economic Development Plan for Southern Louisiana Non-Conventional Energy: 3 Opportunities 1

2 Introduction Creating the Conditions for Wealth Creation While some may feel that Louisiana should simply maintain what is has left of its energy industry, GNO, Inc. determined that we can do better. By correcting our existing tax and incentive structure, Louisiana has an opportunity to create significant new revenue and jobs from existing energy sources - in an environmentally friendly manner. 2

3 Introduction 3 Opportunities Opportunities 1) Deep Exploration of Natural Gas 2) Enhanced Oil Recovery 3) Pet-Coke Gasification for Electricity Potential Benefit $25 billion in new mineral revenues 6,500 new jobs $8 billion in new job earnings 765 BCF of sequestered CO 2 Note: Economic impact Unless otherwise noted, estimates from Dr. James Richardson, LSU. 3

4 1) Deep Exploration of Natural Gas Deep Exploration is defined as drilling for natural gas below 15,000 feet Seismic and permitting activity indicate no significant drilling to come 90% of independents active in 2002 no longer working South Louisiana Experts agree the unexplored territory could yield up to 30 TCF of natural gas 4

5 1) Deep Exploration of Natural Gas Current Situation: Despite vast reserves, non-conventional exploration for natural gas in LA has virtually halted. All precursors predict no activity in the next decade. Louisiana Gas Production State Offshore Natural Gas and Casinghead Gas ( ) 700,000, ,000,000 Thousand Cubic Feet ( MCF) 500,000, ,000, ,000, ,000, ,000, Year

6 1) Deep Exploration of Natural Gas Current Situation: Federal Tax Structure simply a 1/8 royalty; LA has higher royalty as well as severance and property and sales taxes. $140.0 $120.0 $100.0 $80.0 $60.0 $40.0 $20.0 OCS vs LA State Tax Structure F e d e r a Severance Tax F Parish Property Tax State Sales Tax Parish Sales Tax Royalty Tax $ OCS Tax/Cost Structure in $ millions State Tax/Cost Structure in $ millions 6

7 1) Deep Exploration of Natural Gas Solution: LA offers royalty and severance holidays until payout of state property, and eliminates other taxes. OCS vs LA State Tax Structure $ $ $ $80.00 $60.00 Severance Tax Parish Property Tax State Sales Tax Parish Sales Tax Royalty Tax $40.00 $20.00 $ OCS Tax/Cost Structure in $ millions State Tax/Cost Structure in $ millions Proposed State 7

8 1) Deep Exploration of Natural Gas Benefit: Projected new mineral revenues, 2009 through after exploration costs are fully recovered - exceed $18 billion. 8

9 2) Enhanced Oil Recovery Enhanced Oil Recovery involves using an injectant to free stranded oil deposits DOE estimates that LA has over 9B barrels of stranded oil Enhanced oil recovery is a natural for LA because 1. we have industrial producers of CO 2 2. a bountiful feedstock for gasification which produces CO 2 3. an extensive pipeline system to transfer CO 2 from producers to old oil fields 9

10 Greater New Orleans, Inc. Locations of oil fields suitable for EOR using CO 2 Source: Advanced Resources International on behalf of the US Department of Entergy 10

11 2) Enhanced Oil Recovery Current Situation: Despite Louisiana having hundreds of significant potential EOR sites, representing millions of barrels of stranded oil, LA is by-passed in favor of TX and MS which have more favorable tax rates. 11

12 2) Enhanced Oil Recovery Current Situation: LA severance tax for EOR is dramatically higher than for its neighbors. Louisiana* Mississippi Texas 6.25% 3.00% 1.15% *Severance Tax $0 until payout, then 12.5% 12

13 2) Enhanced Oil Recovery Solution: LA cuts severance tax by 75%. Cut Severance Tax by 50% Louisiana Mississippi Texas 3.00% 3.00% 1.15% 13

14 2) Enhanced Oil Recovery The Benefit: EOR can produce millions of barrels of stranded oil and generate new revenues. 14

15 3) Pet-Coke Gasification for Electricity Gasification utilizing pet-coke allows a green future for our petrochemical industries. Source: Gasification Technologies Council Gasifer Gas Stream Cleanup/ Component Separation Fuels Coal Syngas CO/H 2 Chemicals Biomass Petroleum Coke Feedstock Gaseous Constituents Solids Particulates Sulfur/ Sulfuric Acid H 2 Fuel Cell H 2 Transportation Fuels Waste Marketable Solid Byproducts Oxygen Air ASU Steam Air Combustion Turbine Exhaust Water Exhaust Electric Power Stack CO 2 Steam Turbine Electric Power 1 15

16 3) Pet-Coke Gasification for Electricity Gasification can produce environmentally friendly base-load electricity cost competitively versus natural gas. LA produces 1/8 of the world s supply of pet-coke as waste product from the refining process. Pet-coke is an ideal feedstock for Gasification. The products of gasification are Hydrogen, Carbon Monoxide (CO) and CO 2. Hydrogen and CO 2 are commonly called Syngas and are used for both power generation and petrochemical feedstocks at existing sites in LA and the US. Pet-coke gasification is green because a) a clean means of releasing petcoke s energy, b) producing Hydrogen to help our existing petrochemical industries meet the newest, and lowest emission standards. 16

17 3) Pet-Coke Gasification for Electricity Current Situation: LA produces 1/8 of the world s pet-coke, but ships it all overseas where it is burned without controls. 17

18 2) Pet-Coke Gasification for Electricity Current Situation: Recent Federal legislation promotes gasification of pet-coke. 20% Tax credit on cost to build gasification facility in 1st year up to qualified aggregate credits of $2.5 billion. Up to $800 million in Federal tax credits for integrated gasification combined cycle project over next 3 years. Additional $250 million in qualifying gasification credits for projects that include equipment that separates and sequesters at least 75% of the project s total CO 2 emissions. Recapture of credit for failure to sequester. 18

19 2) Pet-Coke Gasification for Electricity Solution: Louisiana should encourage this new technology by providing CO 2 pipelines to facilitate carbon credits for gasification facilities. Transfer of man-made CO 2 from industry to users for out of state EOR, should not be incentivized. Want to utilize CO 2 produced in LA for EOR in state. Utilize Economic Development District bonds to connect industrial CO 2 produces to users via pipelines. Create a free market system that allows pipeline bond to be paid for with CO 2 revenues. 19

20 2) Pet-Coke Gasification for Electricity Benefit: LA produces inexpensive, environmentally-friendly energy. Reduces global CO 2 emissions significantly by capturing CO 2 from millions of tons of pet-coke. LA uses technology to release the energy of its abundant supply of pet-coke in an environmentally-friendly, clean way versus current practices and uses overseas in cement plants. Gasification generates hydrogen, required by our oil refining industries to meet the newest, lowest emission standards. Produces low cost electricity at a reduced cost versus new conventional gas fired generation. Creates opportunities for enhanced oil recovery in LA 20

21 Recap 3 Opportunities Opportunities 1) Deep Exploration of Natural Gas 2) Enhanced Oil Recovery 3) Pet-Coke Gasification for Electricity Potential Benefit $25 billion in new mineral revenues 6,500 new jobs $8 billion in new job earnings 765 BCF of sequestered CO 2 Note: Economic impact Unless otherwise noted, estimates from Dr. James Richardson, LSU. 21

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23 Key Contacts Michael Hecht Andrea St. Paul Bland President & CEO SVP Business Development GNO, Inc. GNO, Inc. (504) (504) Dr. James Richardson Public Administration Institute - Professor & Director Department of Economics - Professor Louisiana State University (225) parich@lsu.edu 23