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Experience Overview Industries Served Clients Case Studies	Home > Experience A Wide Range Of Expertise To Meet Very Specific Needs Norwest provides specialist consulting and engineering services to mining and energy companies, electric power generators, financial institutions, land developers, governments, legal firms and regulatory agencies around the world. Our capabilities continue to grow as our business expands to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. We offer services in four principal areas: Geology and Engineering The combined talent and experience of our people, together with the use of state-of-the art technologies, allow us to offer a complete range of geological, engineering and consulting services for the evaluation and development of coal, coalbed methane, conventional and non-conventional oil and gas, oil sands, oil shale, industrial minerals, and base and precious metal projects. Water Resources Our experience in water resources has benefited many clients in planning and permitting new projects as well as understanding the hydrologic impacts and remediation options of existing operations. Our hydrology experts assist clients with a wide variety of water resources issues including water resource management, surface water hydrology, groundwater characterization, remediation, source control, and hydrologic impact prediction and analysis. Environmental Utilizing worldwide and local resources, we integrate environmental constraints and issues management into all of our projects. We assist clients with environmental assessments, mine closure and mitigation, permitting, environmental planning and management, and sustainable development. Management Consulting We support our local capabilities with an international staff experienced in developing and operating projects in every major mining and energy-producing region of the world. Understanding the economic drivers of a successful venture, we add value to projects whether they are new or ongoing.	Case Study: Power Generation CO₂ Sequestration: Westmoreland Coal Company Situation: Norwest conducted a technological assessment for Westmoreland Coal Company to estimate the costs of a CO₂ sequestration project involving coal-fired power plants. Solution: The assessment compared various aspects of CO₂ sequestration including: anthropogenic sources, a review of CO₂ separation technologies, CO₂ storage potential (especially in geologic formations), and an overall cost estimate of CO₂ sequestration from separation to injection. Result: The study yielded key information regarding the effects of SOx composition of the flue gas streams on pipeline specifications as well as enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications. The Norwest study verified that geologic formations were a lower-risk scenario for CO₂ storage at the current level of technological understanding, due to the natural stability of CO₂ accumulations as well as the overall experience of CO₂-EOR and gas storage. Norwest’s wide-ranging cost analysis also examined the effects of CO₂ capture on electricity costs and capital costs of coal-fired power plants and the correlation of CO₂ capture and storage economics to market prices (oil, gas, and coal). As a result of this study, Westmoreland was able to identify baseline resources and make informed business assessments regarding technological and operational decisions.
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