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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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Linde / Port Arthur Facility

Hydrogenpre-FEED· Linde· 2023-12-04Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,435,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

92.0%

Utilization

90.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

16.2%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$489.9M

Materials Cost—

Construction—

▸Indirect Field Costs$37.5M

Engineering—

▸Contingency & Escalation$86.6M

Project Contingency—

Process Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$41.7M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$701.6M

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

Steam and Power Supply—

Carbon Capture Process—

Compression and Conditioning—

Balance of Plant and Utilities—

▸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

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

E&I Infrastructure—

Solvent Pumping and Conditioning—

Absorber—

Wash Water System—

Buildings & Facilities—

Process Utilities—

CO2 Compression Equipment—

Flue Gas Systems—

Solvent Reclaiming—

Spare Parts, First Fills, Commodity Freight—

Stripper, CO2 Conditioning—

Steam Generation—

Solvent Heat Exchangers—

Solvent Storage—

▸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