ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions Onshore Storage LLC has let a contract to Technip Energies, in consortium with Turner Industries, for a carbon capture and sequestration project in Louisiana.
The engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract covers the ExxonMobil entity’s plans for the delivery of a carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) system that could condition, compress, and transport, for eventual storage, up to 800,000 tonnes/year of CO2 from a manufacturing plant in Convent, La. owned by Nucor Corp., North America’s largest steel producer and recycler (OGJ Online, June 1, 2023)
Technip Energies will oversee the engineering and procurement while Turner Industries will be responsible for the construction.
The manufacturing site produces direct reduced iron (DRI), a raw material that is mixed with recycled scrap at Nucor steel mills, which make higher grades of steel products. The CCUS system is designed to enable the site to produce DRI with up to 80% less greenhouse gas emissions than traditional blast furnace iron production.
ExxonMobil selected Technip Energies to perform the front-end engineering design (FEED), and together with Turner Industries worked to solidify the EPC execution approach.