US midstream company Energy Transfer is considering using its existing asset base in Lousiana and Texas to facilitate exports of blue ammonia.
The company, which generated $78m of revenues in 2023, would potentially provide infrastructure services to blue ammonia producers in the region, and also use its deepwater marine capabilities to existing property for exports.
“On the blue ammonia front, we are working with several companies to evaluate the feasibility of ammonia projects,” Co-CEO Tom Long said in remarks yesterday. “That would include the opportunity to supply and transport natural gas to the ammonia facility and to transport CO2 to third-party sequestration sites.”
Long added, “We’re also looking at opportunities to provide other infrastructure services, including transport and sequestration, ammonia storage, and deep water marine loading on property near our Lake Charles and Nederland facilities,” a reference to assets in Louisiana and Texas, respectively.
The company is also working on carbon capture and sequestration projects that would fit onto its existing processing plants in in North Louisiana, South Texas, and West Texas. “And we are evaluating other CO2 pipeline projects that would connect CO2 emitters to CO2 sequestration sites,” Long said.
Energy Transfer, along with CapturePoint, is a proponent of the the Central Louisiana Regional Carbon Storage Hub — or CENLA Hub — which involves the capture of CO2 emissions from natural gas processing facilities owned by affiliates of Energy Transfer in north and central Louisiana, as well as from other industrial sources in the area, for transport by pipeline to deep underground sequestration.
