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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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Linde / Port Arthur Facility

Hydrogenpre-FEED· Linde· 2023-12-04Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,435,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

92.0%

Utilization

90.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

16.2%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$489.9M

Procurement, Taxes & Duties—

▸Indirect Field Costs$37.5M

Engineering—

▸Contingency & Escalation$86.6M

Project Contingency—

Process Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$41.7M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$701.6M

Peterhead Power Station (Aberdeenshire)

Natural GasFEED· Shell· —Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,000,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

—

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

—

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$331.4M

Solvent Pumping and Conditioning—

▸Indirect Field Costs$89.7M

Indirect Field Costs—

Engineering—

▸Contingency & Escalation—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$6.6M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$427.7M

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