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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 Integrated Pulp and Board Mill / Capture of CO2 in the Multi-fuel Boiler only

Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
270,658t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
95.9%
Parasitic load
4.4MW
CO₂ concentration
16.8%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Direct Field Costs$83.0M
Construction – Including Labor, Materials, and Contracted Equipment—
▸Indirect Field Costs—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Contingency & Escalation$8.3M
Contingency—
▸Interest During Construction$13.5M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$9.2M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$114.0M

Prairie State Generating

CoalFEED· University of Illinois· 2022-09-03Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
7,676,700t/yr
Capture efficiency
95.0%
Utilization
90.0%
Parasitic load
—MW
CO₂ concentration
11.4%vol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Direct Field Costs$1.89B
CO2 Capture System—
▸Indirect Field Costs—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Contingency & Escalation—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$228.5M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$2.12B

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%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸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