The Alberta Carbon Trunk Line Update on the Words's Largest Carbon Capture and Storage Project Enhance Energy Inc. (Enhance), located in Alberta, Canada, specializes in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Along with its partner North West Redwater Partnership (NWRP), Enhance has developed a fully integrated CCS project incorporating gasification, CO2 capture, transportation, storage and EOR. The project utilizes proven technology to provide a critical CO2 gathering and distribution infrastructure, which will enable the cost-effective management of CO2 emissions in Alberta, Canada. The project also demonstrates how Alberta's vast bitumen resources can be produced amid tightening environmental standards.At the heart of the proposed project is the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL), a 16”, 240km pipeline, which will be fully operational in 2015. Laterals have been designed to allow for multiple entry points. CO2 will be collected from various emitters such as coal fired power plants, upgrading/refining operations, petrochemicals and natural gas processing plants in and around Alberta's lndustrial Heartland. The CO2 will then be transported to aging reservoirs in southern Alberta for storage in EOR projects. The ACTL will be able to access reservoirs which are capable of storing over two billion tonnes of CO2, and producing an additional one billion barrels of high quality light crude oil using CO2 EOR. The ACTL will initially capture and store up to 1.6 million tonnes/year of CO2 from the Agrium fertilizer manufacturing facilities and North West Redwater Partnership Sturgeon Refinery (NWRPSR). At full capacity the ACTL project will store 14.6 million tonnes/year of CO2, the equivalent of removing 2.6 million cars from Alberta's roads, the ACTL project will be the word's largest Once fully operational CCS development.This paper will provide an update on the progress being made on the project as the ACTL has moved passed the regulatory phase and is now completing detailed engineering, with procurement underway. The ACTL has received regulatory approval for its pipeline construction and landowners along the entire pipeline route are supportive of the project. The presentation will address the project's development and stress the importance of the support from stakeholders. The paper will also outline the benefits of the project, and will explain how it balances environmental sustainability and economic viability while garnering public supportThe project is significantly advanced and is being financially supported by the Governments of Alberta and the Government Canada; the former through the Carbon Capture and Storage Program in the amount of $495MM CDN, and the latter through the ecoEnergy Technology Initiative and Clean Energy Fund in the amount of $63MM CDN. The estimated total cost of the full project is $1.15B CDN.Susan Cole will present the paper at the GHG-T 11 Conference. Susan is the founder and President of Enhance. Ms. Cole is a professional engineer with over 20 years of experience in the energy industry. Prior to founding Enhance, Ms. Cole was manager of the Weyburn CO2 Project in Saskatchewan, Canada, which is the largest industrial CO2 capture, transportation, and EOR/secure storage project in the world. She managed initial approval, facility construction and start-up phases of this project. As project manager she was responsible for the project implementation, including overall project coordination, economic modeling and start up. The Weyburn project is currently injecting over 6,000 tonnes of CO2 a day (or two million tonnes of CO2 a year) and is very similar in design and concept to the ACTL CCS-EOR project.