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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 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

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

Southern Company / Plant Daniel

Natural GasFEED· Southern Company· 2022-11-30Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,769,520t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

—

Parasitic load

79MW

CO₂ concentration

—

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$515.2M

Instrumentation & Control—

▸Indirect Field Costs$56.6M

Project Management—

Engineering – Including Construction and Startup Support—

▸Contingency & Escalation$126.3M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$54.1M

Front End Planning—

Startup—

Other's owners cost—

Total Capex$752.2M