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Aera Federal, LLC plans to execute a feasibility study for a regional direct air capture (DAC) hub at Aera Energy’s Belridge oil field in Kern County, California. The DAC Hub — Kern would capture carbon emissions from the atmosphere and safely transport and store them in Aera’s CarbonFrontier sequestration site. The hub would integrate capture, low-carbon energy sources, transportation, and sequestration infrastructure to build an innovative low-carbon supply chain.
In May 2024, Aera Energy announced that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded Aera Federal a $2.8 million cooperative agreement contract as part of the department’s Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs Initiatives. The award helps fund a feasibility study to establish the viability of DAC as a business and technology for large-scale California decarbonization. Funded mostly by the US Department of Energy and partly by Aera, the study is slated to begin in May 2024 and end in April 2026