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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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Finnish Market Pulp Mill / Capture of CO2 in the Kraft Recovery Boiler only

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

CO₂ captured

1,478,700t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

95.9%

Parasitic load

23.5MW

CO₂ concentration

14.7%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$278.2M

Power Supply—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$27.8M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction$45.2M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$31.3M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$382.6M

CLECO / Brame Energy Center Madison 3 Unit

CoalFEED· Cleco Power· 2025-03-25

CO₂ captured

4,280,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

80.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

14.1%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$667.2M

Absorber—

▸Indirect Field Costs$509.3M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$120.7M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$1.30B

Cleveland Cliffs / Burns Harbor

Iron and Steelpre-FEED· Dastur International· 2023-03-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

2,800,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

—

Parasitic load

79MW

CO₂ concentration

21.9%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$445.8M

Scaffolding, Painting, Insulation—

▸Indirect Field Costs$66.9M

EPC Fees—

▸Contingency & Escalation$67.5M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction$74.5M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$121.4M

Financing Cost—

Pre-production Cost—

Inventory Capital—

Other's owners cost—

Total Capex$776.1M