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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

Nutrien Redwater Nitrogen Operations

AmmoniaFEED· Nutrien· 2024-11-01Project page ↗

CO₂ captured

1,778,645t/yr

Capture efficiency

99.0%

Utilization

—

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

7.0%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.09B

Process Utilities—

▸Indirect Field Costs$337.8M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$614.9M

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$2.04B

Mustang Station Power Plant

Natural GasFEED· University of Texas at Austin· 2022-01-07Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

853,644t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

52.0%

Parasitic load

46MW

CO₂ concentration

3.8%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$384.1M

Earthwork & Civil—

▸Indirect Field Costs$209.7M

Indirect Field Costs—

Contractor’s Profit—

Engineering—

Miscellaneous Project Expenses (Insurance, taxes, bonds & permits)—

▸Contingency & Escalation$104.6M

Contingency—

▸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