Houston Chronicle

The Petra Nova carbon-capture plant is still a wretched idea (Opinion)

In 1988, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company introduced what it thought would be a revolutionary product that would make everybody happy. The innovation was called the Premier. The company had invented ...
Houston Chronicle

The Petra Nova carbon capture plant is being revived. Can it live up to its promise?

Texas was the site of one of the first injections of carbon dioxide back into the ground, when officials with Chevron began flooding an oil reservoir about 80 miles west of Abilene with the gas to ...
E&E

After Petra Nova, what’s next for NRG and carbon capture?

THOMPSONS, Texas — As a host of VIPs celebrated here yesterday, praising the Petra Nova project for capturing carbon dioxide from a coal plant and boosting oil output, one question went largely ...
E&E

Petra Nova is closed: What it means for carbon capture

When news broke this summer that the Petra Nova carbon capture power project was offline, advocates leapt to the defense of the Texas facility, one of the largest in the world. When news broke this ...