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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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Scottish Power / Longannet Power Station

Natural GasFEED· ScottishPower· 2011-04-01Project page ↗

CO₂ captured

2,000,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

—

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

—

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$509.8M

Wash Water System—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$98.5M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$146.7M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$755.0M

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

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