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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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Calpine / Deer Park Energy Center

Natural GasFEED· Calpine· 2024-05-30Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

6,200,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

90.0%

Parasitic load

184MW

CO₂ concentration

5.2%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.32B

CO2 Technology—

▸Indirect Field Costs$754.3M

Indirect Field Costs—

▸Contingency & Escalation$303.0M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$2.38B

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

Southern Company / Plant Barry

Natural GasFEED· GE Gas Power· 2024-08-06Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,632,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

85.0%

Parasitic load

18.4MW

CO₂ concentration

6.7%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.10B

Foundations—

Civil and Structural—

Piping and Ducting—

NGCC Base Modifications Equipment Cost—

Exhaust Gas Recirculation System Equipment Cost—

Gas Turbine Modifications Equipment Cost—

CO2 Capture System (DCC, Absorber, Stripper and Reboiler) Equipment Cost—

CO2 Compression Equipment—

Cooling Water System (CCS Cooling Tower, Cooling Water Circulation Pumps and Heat Exchangers) Equipment Cost—

CCS Balance of Plant (OSBL) Electrical, Civil, Mechanical Interfaces to NGCC—

Initial fill of CCS inventory (Solvent and Activated Carbon)'—

Labor—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$192.4M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$1.29B