Hereford CCS

White Energy is developing a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at its ethanol facilities in Hereford and Plainview, Texas, focused on capturing biogenic CO₂ from fermentation off-gas and other process emissions. The project is designed to compress and transport the captured CO₂ to permanent underground storage through dedicated pipeline infrastructure and sequestration wells under development. The CCS component is being advanced under a Class VI permit application filed with regulators as Texas Carbon Storage I, establishing regulatory approval for long-term geologic disposal of CO₂ and forming the foundation for the project’s full capture-transport-storage value chain. In addition to on-site capture, White Energy is actively developing CO₂ transport and sequestration infrastructure to support delivery of captured emissions from multiple facilities to secure storage sites, enabling long-term emissions reductions for ethanol production in the region. White Energy previously explored a CCS partnership with Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) in 2018, though that collaboration did not materialize; current efforts are being advanced independently to establish integrated carbon management capability. The Hereford & Plainview project represents a strategic deployment of CCS in the U.S. biofuels sector, aimed at significantly lowering plant carbon intensity and participating in emerging low-carbon fuel markets.