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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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Nutrien Redwater Nitrogen Operations

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

CO₂ captured

683,645t/yr

Capture efficiency

99.0%

Utilization

—

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

7.0%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$520.0M

CO2 Compression Equipment—

▸Indirect Field Costs$160.3M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$293.2M

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$973.6M

Rayburn Energy Station / Sherman Power Plant

Natural GasFEED· Bechtel· 2022-03-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

645,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

85.0%

Utilization

57.0%

Parasitic load

67.3MW

CO₂ concentration

6.0%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$385.9M

Distribution control system (DCS), communication, main power supply, all distribution system, auxiliary system—

▸Indirect Field Costs$59.1M

Construction preliminaries—

Engineering—

Mechanical completion, commissioning and testing—

Training—

▸Contingency & Escalation—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction$27.0M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$5.0M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$477.0M

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