Project Selections for FOA 2730: Carbon Capture Technology Program, CO2 Transport, Front-End Engineering and Design (Round 2)

CO₂ Barge Transportation FEED Study for Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama — BKV dCarbon High West, LLC (Denver, Colorado) plans to conduct a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study to assess the technical, economic, environmental, and community-level feasibility of utilizing barges to transport 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) per year to BKV’s carbon storage sites in southeastern Louisiana. This study will consider various CO₂ emission sources within 100 miles of the storage sites. The team intends to focus on understanding how economies of scale, cost efficiencies, and potential repurposing of existing infrastructure can be used to create a commercially viable project.

DOE Funding: $2,532,000
Non-DOE Funding: $988,000
Total Value: $3,520,000
 

Trail of the Chiefs — Carbon Solutions, LLC (Okemos, Missouri) intends to conduct a FEED study for an open-access, 488-mile CO₂ pipeline capable of transporting up to 32 million metric tons of CO₂ per year across Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming. The project will unite and coordinate tribal energy opportunities across these states, connect and support existing Department of Energy investments such as projects funded under the Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise program, and include considerations for future pipeline expansion. Two of the three commercial partners driving the project are 100% owned by tribal companies and members.                                                                                       

DOE Funding: $3,000,000
Non-DOE Funding: $1,000,000
Total Value: $4,000,000
 

Maritime CO₂ Transportation in the Gulf of Mexico — Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) plans to conduct a FEED study for a system that transports CO₂ via articulated tug and barge from a proposed multimodal hub at Port Tampa Bay, Florida to an existing tank terminal near Sunshine, Louisiana. CO₂ aggregated from emissions sources in the Port Tampa Bay region will be temporarily stored at the multimodal hub, loaded onto the barges, transported across the Gulf of Mexico, and unloaded at the tank terminal in Louisiana. The CO₂ will be temporarily stored at the terminal before being transferred to a future pipeline for permanent storage. The project will advance the design of 20,000-metric ton vessels and aims to transport 2 million metric tons of CO₂ per year from Florida to Louisiana. This maritime system is needed in this location due to the absence of confirmed carbon sinks for permanent storage in Florida and lack of any pipeline network for CO₂ transport.

DOE Funding: $2,527,932
Non-DOE Funding: $673,520
Total Value: $3,201,452
 

West Coast Barge CO₂ Transport Project — ZuCO₂ Transport, LLC (Acampo, California) intends to conduct a FEED study for a common-carrier CO₂ barge transport system that connects emissions sources in Washington, Oregon, and California to a storage site in the San Joaquin Delta of California. The scalable project intends to initially transport 1 million metric tons of CO₂ per year. Permitting new CO₂ pipelines currently poses challenges in many states, including a temporary moratorium in California imposed by recent legislation. Washington and Oregon lack California’s immediate access to abundant geologic storage resources, leaving them stranded for storage options in the short term. ZuCO₂’s approach of a barge CO₂ transport method aims to enable low-cost transport of CO₂ from a variety of coastal and inland sources in all three states, making the world-class geologic storage potential of the Delta available to CO₂ sources in a region that does not have any readily deployable geologic storage of its own.

DOE Funding: $3,000,000
Non-DOE Funding: $1,720,895
Total Value: $4,720,895