A Texas-based company has asked the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy for permission to construct and operate the 125-mile Red River Pipeline Louisiana that will stretch from southwest Arkansas to the Robeline Gas Treating Facility in Natchitoches Parish.
Dozens of northeast Louisiana landowners have received information from CapturePoint about the pipeline project that intends to go through their properties. The notices are alerting property owners to a public hearing on Nov. 17 in Baton Rouge at which CapturePoint will make the case that the pipeline is needed to “transport carbon dioxide … for use in connection with enhanced oil recovery.”
According to information provided by CapturePoint, the pipeline will transport carbon dioxide “for the enhanced recovery of liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons” from the Midway Unit oil field in Lafayette County, Arkansas, to the Robeline facility…