ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions has placed a contract with Technip Energies, in consortium with Turner Industries, for a carbon capture and sequestration project in Louisiana.  The EPC contract covers ExxonMobil’s plans for the delivery of a carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) system that could condition, compress, and transport, up to 800 ktCO2/y from a manufacturing plant owned by Nucor, North America’s largest steel producer and recycler. The initial agreement between ExxonMobil and Nucor to provide CCUS for its Louisiana site was made in June 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.