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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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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%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Direct Field Costs$575.3M
Solvent Reclaiming$19.6M
▸Indirect Field Costs$104.9M
Construction management, supervision, temporary facilities, overhead$54.3M
EPC engineering and detailed design$50.6M
▸Contingency & Escalation$145.5M
Contingency$104.0M
Escalation$41.5M
▸Interest During Construction—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$23.6M
Owner's cost$23.6M
Total Capex$849.3M

Technology Centre Mongstad

CoalLarge Pilot· Membrane Technology and Research (MTR)· 2023-08-15Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
5,658,960t/yr
Capture efficiency
70.0%
Utilization
85.0%
Parasitic load
182MW
CO₂ concentration
12.5%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Direct Field Costs$1.65B
Utilities Equipment$58.5M
▸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

Finnish Market Pulp Mill / Capture of CO2 in both Kraft Boiler & Lime Kiln

Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
1,675,922t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
95.9%
Parasitic load
26.9MW
CO₂ concentration
15.5%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Direct Field Costs$292.9M
Enclosures & Buildings$79.0M
▸Indirect Field Costs—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Contingency & Escalation$29.3M
Contingency$29.3M
▸Interest During Construction$47.6M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
▸Owners Cost$33.0M
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
Total Capex$402.8M