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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%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$575.3M

Solvent Reclaiming—

▸Indirect Field Costs$104.9M

Construction management, supervision, temporary facilities, overhead—

EPC engineering and detailed design—

▸Contingency & Escalation$145.5M

Contingency—

Escalation—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$23.6M

Owner's cost—

Total Capex$849.3M

Prairie State Generating

CoalFEED· University of Illinois· 2022-09-03Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

7,676,700t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

90.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

11.4%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.89B

CO2 Capture System—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$228.5M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$2.12B

Finnish Integrated Pulp and Board Mill / 400,000 adt/y production / Capture of CO2 in the Kraft Recovery Boiler only

Pulp and Paperpre-FEED· VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland· 2016-12-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,478,700t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

95.9%

Parasitic load

23.5MW

CO₂ concentration

14.7%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$321.6M

Engineering-Procured Materials—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$32.2M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction$52.4M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$37.9M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$444.0M