Shute Creek

The ExxonMobil Shute Creek / LaBarge Carbon Capture Project in Wyoming, USA is one of the world’s largest and longest-operating commercial CCS facilities. The project captures CO₂ from high-CO₂ natural gas produced at the LaBarge gas processing plant, where raw gas streams contain up to 65 percent CO₂. Captured CO₂ is separated during gas processing, dehydrated, compressed, and transported through ExxonMobil’s dedicated pipeline network for use in enhanced oil recovery operations and permanent geological storage in the region. Since operations began in the mid-1980s, the facility has captured and managed more than 120 million tonnes of CO₂, with current capture capacity exceeding 7 million tonnes per year, making it a cornerstone of large-scale industrial carbon management in North America. The Shute Creek project demonstrates long-term operational reliability of integrated CO₂ capture, compression, transport, and subsurface injection at scale, and remains a key reference asset for commercial CCS deployment tied to natural gas processing infrastructure. ExxonMobil has committed to expanding carbon capture at LaBarge with major investments to increase annual CO₂ capture capacity by up to 1.2 million metric tonnes per year in addition to the 6–7 million tonnes per year already captured on site, with front-end engineering complete and startup planned around 2025.