CCS Project Database
Company/Alliance: Air Products and Chemicals, Denbury Onshore LLC, University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology and Valero Energy Corporation
Location: Port Arthur, Texas, US
Start Date: January 2013
Size: 1 Mt/yr
Capture Type: Post-combustion (90% capture) using vacuum swing adsorption technology
CO2 Source: Existing steam-methane reformers
Storage: EOR in West Hasting's and Oyster Bayou oil fields, Texas
Motivation/Economics:
Total cost: $431 million. DOE share: $284 million (66%).
The DOE awarded the Port Arthur project $900,000 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in October 2009. The project also received an additional $253 million from the ARRA as part of the DOE's CCS Program's Phase 2 in June 2010. This money is matched by $368 million in private funding.
Comments:
In June, 2016, Air Products announced that it had successfully captured more than three million metric tons of CO2 at Port Arthur after 3 1/2 years of operation.
The project is made up of 2 Steam Methane Reformers (SMR) located within the Valero Refinery in Port Arthur. The first plant has been capturing CO2 since December 2012, while the second plant completed construction in February 2013 and began carbon capture operations in March 2013. Both units are now operating at full capacity. Over 222,000 tons of carbon dioxide have been captured and provided for storage as of early May 2013
The 1 MT/Yr CO2 is captured, dried and purified to 97% purity of CO2 at the Port Arthur facility. The CO2 is then delivered, via a 12-mile connector pipeline, to Denbury's Green Pipeline- Texas. The CO2 will be piped 101-150 km before injection for EOR in Denbury's onshore operations. The CO2 will aid in recovering 1.6-3.1 million additional barrels annually of domestic oil.
The SMR's produce hydrogen to assist in the making of cleaner burning transportation fuels by refinery customers on Air Products Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline network.
Deliverables:
The engineering study and project plan were completed in 2010
The final investment decision was made in 2011
The project started CO2 capture in January 2013
Full scale capture and storage in May 2013
Project Link: Air Products signs 2 agreements to move project forward (May 2011)
Other Sources and Press Releases:
Texas CO2 Capture Demonstration Project Hits Three Million Metric Ton Milestone (June 2016)
Energy Department Project Captures and Stores more than One Million Metric Tons of CO2 (June 2014)
Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Research, Development, and Demonstration at the U.S. Department of Energy (June 2013)
Breakthrough Industrial Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Project Begins Full-Scale Operations (May 2013)
Breakthrough Large-Scale Industrial Project Begins Carbon Capture and Utilization (January 2013)
DOE announces $1bn in funds for CCS projects (June 2010)
Air Products announcement of $253 million DOE award (June 2010)
DOE awards $900,000 from Recovery and Reinvestment Act (October 2009)
Air Products website
