Global nutrition supplier ADM has partnered with energy infrastructure company Tallgrass to link its corn processing complex in Columbus, Nebraska to an underground CO₂ storage hub in Wyoming, creating what it says is “the largest bioethanol carbon capture facility in the world.”

Formerly a 400-mile natural gas transmission line, the Trailblazer pipeline runs through Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska, and is capable of transporting more than 10 million tons of CO₂ per year. ADM says this is the equivalent of removing more than 2 million passenger vehicles from the roads or approximately 25% of all registered motor vehicles in the three states combined.

As part of the project, Tallgrass also constructed a lateral line connecting ADM’s facility to the pipeline system using only voluntary easements from landowners.

Chris Cuddy, ADM North America president, says ADM has been a pioneer in the CCS industry for more than a decade and that the technology is key to its strategy to decarbonise operations and help meet global demand for low-carbon ingredients.

ADM is a global agricultural supply chain manager and processor, supplying human, animal, and pet nutrition products as well as industrial biofuels.