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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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Peterhead Power Station (Aberdeenshire)
CO₂ captured
1,000,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
—
Parasitic load
—MW
CO₂ concentration
—
▸Direct Field Costs$331.4M
Water System$13.8M
CO2 Compression Equipment$37.7M
Construction$119.6M
Carbon Capture Plant$159.6M
Electrical and Instrumentation / E&I$0.8M
▸Indirect Field Costs$89.7M
Indirect Field Costs$73.4M
Engineering$16.3M
▸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
Mustang Station Power Plant
CO₂ captured
853,644t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
52.0%
Parasitic load
46MW
CO₂ concentration
3.8%vol%
▸Direct Field Costs$384.1M
Solvent Pumping and Conditioning$56.0M
Absorber$37.0M
Wash Water System$33.9M
Buildings & Facilities$31.8M
Process Utilities$29.7M
CO2 Compression Equipment$24.2M
Flue Gas Systems$21.6M
Solvent Reclaiming$19.6M
Spare Parts, First Fills, Commodity Freight$18.1M
Stripper, CO2 Conditioning$17.4M
Steam Generation$15.2M
Solvent Heat Exchangers$9.5M
Solvent Storage$6.5M
E&I Infrastructure$63.5M
▸Indirect Field Costs$209.7M
Indirect Field Costs$93.1M
Contractor’s Profit$60.1M
Engineering$37.0M
Miscellaneous Project Expenses (Insurance, taxes, bonds & permits)$19.5M
▸Contingency & Escalation$104.6M
Contingency$104.6M
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$28.0M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$726.4M
Technology Centre Mongstad
CO₂ captured
5,658,960t/yr
Capture efficiency
70.0%
Utilization
85.0%
Parasitic load
182MW
CO₂ concentration
12.5%mol%
▸Direct Field Costs$1.65B
Coal & Sorbent Prep & Feed Equipment$13.5M
Feedwater & Misc. Balance of Plant Systems Equipment$50.1M
Pulverized coal-fired boiler Equipment$297.9M
Flue Gas Cleanup Equipment$81.3M
CO2 Capture System Equipment$154.4M
CO2 Compression and Purification Equipment$80.5M
HRSG, Ducting & Stack Equipment$8.7M
Steam Turbine Generator Equipment$131.5M
Cooling Water System Equipment$34.9M
Ash/Spent Sorbent Handling System Equipment$5.0M
Accessory Electric Plant Equipment$34.0M
Instrumentation & Control Equipment$12.6M
Improvements to Site Equipment$2.6M
Materials$66.3M
Labor$626.7M
Coal & Sorbent Handling Equipment$48.5M
▸Indirect Field Costs$187.0M
Engineering$187.0M
▸Contingency & Escalation$418.3M
Project Contingency$417.5M
Process Contingency$0.8M
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$507.6M
Financing Cost$60.9M
Pre-production Cost$66.8M
Inventory Capital$37.9M
Other's owners cost$342.0M
Total Capex$3.19B