Project Overview
Louisiana, already the home of vibrant petrochemical and energy industries, is poised to become one of the world’s leaders in capturing the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions those industries create.
Three companies, including ExxonMobil, are joining forces to build and operate a carbon capture and storage (CCS) system that will capture and permanently store 2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions deep underground per year, before they are released into the atmosphere. The Louisiana-based project will take advantage of the state’s abundant, geologically secure storage areas, located more than a mile underground, to help preserve Louisiana’s economically critical industries by reducing their carbon footprint.
The system will include constructing carbon capture equipment at at the Nucor Steel facility, building new connections to a pipeline near CF Industries in Donaldsonville to carry the captured carbon away, and injecting the emissions safely and permanently underground into wells built and operated by ExxonMobil.
Start-up for the system is initially projected to be xxx.