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Air Products Port Arthur

Brief description:

Air Products Port Arthur: Read more; Capture Method:
Pre-combustion
Capture Technology:

Capital cost:
approx $384 million
Financial support:
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--> Volume:
1 million tonnes; 29.369571 -98.422604

Facts:

Main developer: Air Products & Chemicals

Country: USA

Project type: Capture Storage

Scale: Large

Status: Under construction

Capital cost: approx $384 million

Financal support:
Clean Coal Power Initiative, US

Year of operation 2012

Industry: Oil and gas processing

Capture method: Pre-combustion

New or retrofit: Retrofit

Transport of CO2 by: Pipeline

Type of storage: EOR

Volume: 1 million tonnes/CO2

Air Products & Chemicals is progressing with plans to design, build and operate a capture plant at its Port Arthur oil refinery in Texas. Construction of a new-build hydrogen plant with carbon capture began in August 2011, with start-up planned for 2012.

The facility will capture up to 1 million tonnes a year of CO2 from two steam methane reformers, which are used for the large-scale production of hydrogen. Venture partner Denbury Resources will provide pipeline infrastructure to transport the captured gas to the West Hasting's and Oyster Bayou oilfields for use by Denbury Onshore in EOR projects.

Air Products is designing the CO2 removal units - using ‘vacuum swing adsorption’ - which will be retrofitted to each reformer train. The project team also includes the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, and Valero Energy Corporation, and it will be managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), as part of one of its key research programmes.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is funding 66% of the approximate $384 million cost of the project.

Air Products is also involved in a number of global CCS demonstration projects, including work with Vattenfall AB, the Alberta Energy Research Institute, and Imperial College London.

Financing

In October 2009, the project was awarded almost $962,000 funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE), from a $1.4 billion fund for progressing industrial-scale CCS projects – the first phase of research and development included $21.6 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and $22.5 million in private funding. In June 2010, it was selected to receive $253 million in Phase 2 funding from the DOE under the Industrial Carbon Capture and Sequestration (ICCS) Program.

Timing

Plant construction began in August 2011. An engineering study and project plan had been completed in mid-2010. Operations start-up has been provisionally set for 2012.