Lake Charles Methanol II, LLC is a clean hydrogen project located near Lake Charles, Louisiana, that will use advanced natural gas reforming technology and permanent carbon capture and sequestration to produce low-carbon hydrogen for conversion to blue methanol.

The project utilizes Topsoe’s SynCOR™ technology, which deploys auto-thermal reformers to reform the natural gas and provide for the capture of carbon. Natural gas is converted in the SynCOR™ reactor to hydrogen as well as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen and carbon molecules are used in the production of methanol.

Excess carbon dioxide created in the process is separated, compressed, and transported to a geologic storage site for sequestration. The project has a long-term agreement to sequester its captured CO2 with Denbury Resources.

The project, which was first proposed in 2015, was originally going to gasify petroleum coke and convert it to methanol. It pivoted in 2022, and it submitted a new application to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality in October 2023.