Sweetwater Carbon Storage Hub
USA
Greenfield
Overview
Status
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Greenfield
Region
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North America
Geography
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USA
State
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Wyoming
Equity Owner
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Frontier Carbon Solutions, a portfolio company of Tailwater Capital
Proponent
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Frontier Carbon Solutions, University of Wyoming
Output
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Carbon sequestration
CarbonSAFE
Type of electricty
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Capacity
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When fully developed, the SCS Hub is expected to store over 350 million metric tons of CO2 in geologic reservoirs.
Financing
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Wyoming Energy Matching Funds: $9.1m; $40.5 DOE CarbonSAFE initiative, $1m Frontier
Technology
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Technical Advisors
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Advisors
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Project Contact
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Alicia Summers, chief development officer at Frontier
Lawyers
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Project Cost
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$50.6m
Offtaker
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Commercial Operations Date
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Decommission Date
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FID
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Description
Frontier Carbon Solutions Holdings LLC, a project developer in the carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration sector and a portfolio company of Tailwater Capital LLC, is developing the Sweetwater Carbon Storage Hub, one of North America’s first open source, multipurpose carbon storage hubs. The SCS Hub spans over 45,000 acres in southwestern Wyoming and will provide a carbon management solution for industrial emitters across the Mountain West. Additionally, Frontier has submitted 3 Class VI UIC Permits with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality for CO2 injection. When fully developed, the SCS Hub is expected to store over 350 million metric tons of CO2 in geologic reservoirs.The University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources (SER), with Frontier as a partner and collaborator, was recently awarded $40.5m by the Department of Energy’s CarbonSAFE initiative to further develop the Sweetwater Carbon Storage Hub. Frontier and SER will use grant proceeds to invest in the SCS Hub, including drilling Class VI injection wells and expanded reservoir characterization across the area. Alongside a recently announced upsized equity commitment from Tailwater Capital, Frontier will be well positioned to further build the SCS Hub into the preeminent carbon storage complex in the Rocky Mountain region.