Decarbon Debrief: DOE Funds Point-Source Carbon Capture
Department of Energy announces winners for carbon capture funding.
🚨 The Lead
The top story of the week.
Earlier in May, the Department of Energy selected twelve projects for $251 million to support the nation’s carbon management capabilities. These projects span seven states including North Dakota, Wyoming, and Louisiana where Class VI primacy exists.
Carbon transportation only received $9 million in awards across three projects. On the cusp of the awards, two of the transportation projects issued statements and provided more details.
Howard Energy Partners was selected through the DOE’s carbon capture technology partner.
This is the second DOE funding opportunity for which HEP has been selected. In February, a consortium comprised of HEP, Talos Energy Inc. (Talos) and the Port of Corpus Christi (POCC) was selected for a $9 million CarbonSAFE funding opportunity to facilitate the collection of geologic data for CO2 storage onshore under POCC property.
Carbon Solutions will lead the project alongside Wyoming’s EOR Institute and the Wyoming Energy Authority. The group aims to complete a FEED study for a commercial scale statewide pipeline system that would ultimately be operated by Williams.
A consortium of Carbon Solutions, Carbonvert, Glenrock Energy, Kanata America, Live Oak Environmental, and Williams today announced that their project, “Time’s Ticking: Embarking on the Wyoming Trails Carbon Hub (“WyoTCH”),” has been formally launched with its selection to receive Department of Energy funding to study and design a carbon dioxide infrastructure system in Wyoming.
Todd’s Take:
The carbon economy is evolving yet carbon transportation continues to put larger projects at risk. Partnerships and commercial collaborators are paramount in order to fulfill CO2 sequestration at gigaton scale. These partnerships will help us realize the source-to-sink value chain.
DOE’s funding announcements show how these public and private partnerships are evolving. Universities, regulators, and communities must be involved along with public and private partnerships to move the individual projects forward.
With projects moving from concept to reality, the carbon management industry is beginning to take shape. Some will recognize names from Oil & Gas, but there are many new, funded companies that are working with regional industrial CO2 emitters to capture and store the waste stream.
Carbon management needs several more carbon capture and carbon transportation successful projects, so that investors and companies know how to operate in the new carbon economy. The funding from the DOE will act as a spark for the industry but the economics will dictate how the industry grows from here.
✨ This Week in Decarbonization
Highlights from the week’s most popular stories in industrial decarbonization.
🌊 Equatic Launches Low-Cost, Gigaton-Scale Technology to Decarbonize at Unprecedented Speed
🌟 Pembina Pipeline Announces Agreement with Marubeni Corporation to Develop a Low Carbon Ammonia Project and Outlines Vision for Pembina Low Carbon Complex
🛢 Unique partnership plugs old, leaking wells in Colorado
🎉 Cowboy Clean Fuels Announces Partnership with Puro.earth to Generate CO2 Removal Certificates
🦺 Nucor Enters Into Carbon Capture & Storage Agreement with ExxonMobil
⛏ Ballard & First Mode sign order for 60 additional hydrogen fuel cell modules for zero-emission mining trucks
☁️ Wyoming Trails Carbon Hub Grant Award Announcement
🎯 PPG sets science-based 2030 decarbonization targets, reports 2022 sustainability progress
☁️ Capture This CO2
A single carbon capture or hydrogen project in industrial decarbonization.
Lone Cypress Elk Hills Hydrogen Facility
🏭 Operator: Lone Cypress / CRC
📌 Location: California
⛽ Industry: Blue Hydrogen Facility
🦺 Project Status: Announced
🌱 Project Type: Commercial
According to Lone Cypress, the 65 ton per day hydrogen facility will capture 240,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. The partnership with California Resources Corporation (CRC) positions the Lone Cypress facility to be a critical piece to decarbonizing California. The facility is expected to be operational by 2025 and is located west of Bakersfield, CA.
Source: California Resource Corporation investor deck
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