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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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Technology Centre Mongstad

CoalLarge Pilot· Membrane Technology and Research (MTR)· 2023-08-15Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

5,658,960t/yr

Capture efficiency

70.0%

Utilization

85.0%

Parasitic load

182MW

CO₂ concentration

12.5%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.65B

Utilities Equipment—

▸Indirect Field Costs$187.0M

Engineering—

▸Contingency & Escalation$418.3M

Project Contingency—

Process Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$507.6M

Financing Cost—

Pre-production Cost—

Inventory Capital—

Other's owners cost—

Total Capex$3.19B

Mustang Station Power Plant

Natural GasFEED· University of Texas at Austin· 2022-01-07Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

853,644t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

52.0%

Parasitic load

46MW

CO₂ concentration

3.8%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$384.1M

Earthwork & Civil—

▸Indirect Field Costs$209.7M

Indirect Field Costs—

Contractor’s Profit—

Engineering—

Miscellaneous Project Expenses (Insurance, taxes, bonds & permits)—

▸Contingency & Escalation$104.6M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$28.0M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$726.4M

CEMEX / Balcones Cement Plant

Cementpre-FEED· Membrane Technology and Research (MTR)· 2022-06-03Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

744,235t/yr

Capture efficiency

75.0%

Utilization

90.0%

Parasitic load

36MW

CO₂ concentration

14.9%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$262.6M

Pre-commisioning and Startup—

▸Indirect Field Costs$123.7M

Project Indirects—

Construction Indirect—

▸Contingency & Escalation$123.9M

Contingency—

Escalation—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$510.2M