NextDecade Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America Inc., part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, have signed an engineering services agreement for design, license, and performance guarantee of the KM CDR process, a post-combustion carbon capture technology to be applied at NextDecade’s planned 27-million tonne/year (tpy) Rio Grande LNG plant in the Port of Brownsville, Tex.
Last month, NextDecade announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Next Carbon Solutions, is developing one of the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in North America at Rio Grande LNG (OGJ Online, Mar. 26, 2021). Next Carbon Solutions’ CCS project at Rio Grande LNG is expected to capture and permanently store more than 5 million tpy of carbon dioxide.
MHI Group has deployed 13 carbon capture systems around the world, including what it describes as the world’s largest post-combustion carbon capture system, comparable in size to the first phase of the carbon capture project at Rio Grande LNG.
NextDecade anticipates achieving final investment decision (FID) on a minimum of two trains at Rio Grande LNG in 2021 and FID on Next Carbon Solutions’ CCS project soon after FID on Rio Grande LNG.