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Carbon Capture Costs: FEED & pre-FEED Cost Reports

Carbon capture costs from pre-FEED and FEED studies across power, cement, steel, natural gas, hydrogen and other industrial sectors. Browse capital (capex) and operating (opex) cost estimates from publicly available engineering reports, drill down into cost buckets and line items, and compare up to three projects side-by-side.

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Rayburn Energy Station / Sherman Power Plant

Natural GasFEED· Bechtel· 2022-03-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

645,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

85.0%

Utilization

57.0%

Parasitic load

67.3MW

CO₂ concentration

6.0%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$385.9M

Distribution control system (DCS), communication, main power supply, all distribution system, auxiliary system—

▸Indirect Field Costs$59.1M

Construction preliminaries—

Engineering—

Mechanical completion, commissioning and testing—

Training—

▸Contingency & Escalation—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction$27.0M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$5.0M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$477.0M

Prairie State Generating

CoalFEED· University of Illinois· 2022-09-03Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

7,676,700t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

90.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

11.4%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.89B

CO2 Capture System—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$228.5M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$2.12B

CEMEX / Balcones Cement Plant

Cementpre-FEED· Sargent and Lundy· 2026-01-01Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

2,400,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

74.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

12.8%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$575.3M

Solvent Reclaiming—

▸Indirect Field Costs$104.9M

Construction management, supervision, temporary facilities, overhead—

EPC engineering and detailed design—

▸Contingency & Escalation$145.5M

Contingency—

Escalation—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$23.6M

Owner's cost—

Total Capex$849.3M