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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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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

Finnish Integrated Pulp and Board Mill / Capture of CO2 in Kraft, Multi-fuel Boilers & Lime Kiln

Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,946,575t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

95.9%

Parasitic load

31.4MW

CO₂ concentration

15.7%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$385.8M

Cooling Water System—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$38.6M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction$62.9M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$45.5M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$532.7M

Calpine / Deer Park Energy Center

Natural GasFEED· Calpine· 2024-05-30Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

6,200,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

90.0%

Parasitic load

184MW

CO₂ concentration

5.2%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.32B

Civil structural work—

▸Indirect Field Costs$754.3M

Indirect Field Costs—

▸Contingency & Escalation$303.0M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$2.38B