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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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Cleveland Cliffs / Burns Harbor
CO₂ captured
2,800,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
95.0%
Utilization
—
Parasitic load
79MW
CO₂ concentration
21.9%vol%
▸Direct Field Costs$445.8M
Carbon Capture Island Equipment$116.6M
Steam and Power System Equipment$66.4M
Materials$190.1M
Labor$23.7M
Blast Furnace Gas Processing Equipment$48.1M
▸Indirect Field Costs$66.9M
EPC Fees$66.9M
▸Contingency & Escalation$67.5M
Contingency$67.5M
▸Interest During Construction$74.5M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$121.4M
Financing Cost$15.7M
Pre-production Cost$15.0M
Inventory Capital$3.7M
Other's owners cost$87.0M
Total Capex$776.1M
Mustang Station Power Plant
CO₂ captured
853,644t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
52.0%
Parasitic load
46MW
CO₂ concentration
3.8%vol%
▸Direct Field Costs$384.1M
Solvent Pumping and Conditioning$56.0M
Absorber$37.0M
Wash Water System$33.9M
Buildings & Facilities$31.8M
Process Utilities$29.7M
CO2 Compression Equipment$24.2M
Flue Gas Systems$21.6M
Solvent Reclaiming$19.6M
Spare Parts, First Fills, Commodity Freight$18.1M
Stripper, CO2 Conditioning$17.4M
Steam Generation$15.2M
Solvent Heat Exchangers$9.5M
Solvent Storage$6.5M
E&I Infrastructure$63.5M
▸Indirect Field Costs$209.7M
Indirect Field Costs$93.1M
Contractor’s Profit$60.1M
Engineering$37.0M
Miscellaneous Project Expenses (Insurance, taxes, bonds & permits)$19.5M
▸Contingency & Escalation$104.6M
Contingency$104.6M
▸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
CO₂ captured
744,235t/yr
Capture efficiency
75.0%
Utilization
90.0%
Parasitic load
36MW
CO₂ concentration
14.9%vol%
▸Direct Field Costs$262.6M
Material$50.1M
Construction equipment$9.0M
Raw Material Relocation$12.3M
Labor$32.9M
Process equipment$121.6M
Subcontract$35.6M
▸Indirect Field Costs$123.7M
Project Indirects$53.7M
Construction Indirect$70.0M
▸Contingency & Escalation$123.9M
Contingency$57.9M
Escalation$65.9M
▸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