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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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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

CEMEX / Balcones Cement Plant

· 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

Absorber, cooling system, compression, vessels, pumps—

Piping materials, ductwork, racks—

Civil materials, concrete, site materials—

Structural steel materials—

Electrical materials and equipment—

Instruments and automation hardware—

Insulation materials—

Paint and coatings—

Freight, heavy lift, hauling—

All field installation labor—

▸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

CLECO / Brame Energy Center Madison 3 Unit

CoalFEED· Cleco Power· 2025-03-25

CO₂ captured

4,280,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

80.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

14.1%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$667.2M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Indirect Field Costs$509.3M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$120.7M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$1.30B