South Texas DAC

1PointFive is developing the South Texas Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hub, a large-scale carbon removal and storage project located on King Ranch in Kleberg County, Texas. The site covers roughly 106,000 acres of leased pore space and is planned as a long-term DAC and sequestration hub that could ultimately remove up to ~30 million tonnes of CO₂ per year and store up to ~3 billion tonnes of CO₂ underground in saline formations — among the largest potential DAC hubs globally. The initial phase under development is designed to host a DAC facility with an initial capture capacity of ~500,000 metric tons of CO₂ annually, with future expansion to over 1 million tons per year as engineering and permitting progress. The hub uses Carbon Engineering’s DAC technology to pull CO₂ directly from the atmosphere, which will then be purified, compressed, and permanently sequestered deep underground. The project has been selected for significant U.S. federal support: the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) awarded up to ~$500 million in funding to accelerate engineering, permitting, procurement, and community engagement for the initial DAC facility, with the potential to expand funding up to $650 million for broader regional carbon infrastructure. As part of its development strategy, 1PointFive is advancing front-end engineering and design (FEED), seeking Class VI well permits to enable safe geologic CO₂ storage, and building community benefits plans focused on local hiring and workforce development.