ExxonMobil’s carbon capture plant at its LaBarge field in southwest Wyoming, which became operational in 1986. CO2 is transported and sold for EOR. ExxonMobil completed an $86m expansion of the CO2 capture facility in December 2010, which resulted in 50% more CO2 capture than the previous plant. In February 2022, ExxonMobil announced it had made… Continue reading Shute Creek Carbon Capture
Commercial-scale CCS for the Dry Fork Station power plant, in the Powder River Basin, in Wyoming, with saline storage sites capable of storing 50 million tonnes of CO2. Basin Electric’s Dry Fork Station has been the site of Wyoming Integrated Test Center since 2018. In 2023, Membrane Technology and Research, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and Japan… Continue reading Dry Fork Integrated Commercial CCS (Wyoming CarbonSAFE Project)
A potential retrofit of some of the coal-burning units at PacifiCorp’s Dave Johnston coal-fired power plant near Glenrock, which is planned to be decommissioned by 2028. Jupiter Oxygen, Glenrock Petroleum, and others have expressed interest in purchasing the plant and in equipping some of its units with CCUS technology. In November 2022, PacifiCorp issued two… Continue reading Dave Johnston Plant CCUS Retrofit
The Lost Cabin Gas Plant project was a CCUS project with a capacity of 0.9Mtpa started in 2013 in Fremont County, Wyoming, U.S. ConocoPhillips and Denbury were the companies involved in the project. It suspended CO2 injection in 2018 when a fire at the plant resulted in the shutdown of its CCUS facility. There was… Continue reading ConocoPhillips | Lost Cabin Gas Plant Capture Project
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… Continue reading Sweetwater Carbon Storage Hub
Project Bison, also known as also known as Wyoming Regional Direct Air Capture Hub, included the development of a large DAC facility in Wyoming. The project was canceled in September 2024 because of “growing competition for clean power amongst industries that are emerging much faster than anybody would have ever predicted.” Its build-out was supposed… Continue reading CarbonCapture | Project Bison
A large-scale wind project likely supplemented with solar to directly power electrolysis and other related synthesis facilities to produce clean hydrogen in Eastern Wyoming. This “clean hydrogen” may be used directly as a renewable fuel or could be combined with other gasses to make ammonia or synthetic fuel, such as green diesel, using well-established chemical… Continue reading Pronghorn Clean Hydrogen Hub | Discouraged
A commercial-scale CO2 sequestration hub in the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin in eastern Wyoming. The project supports Tallgrass’ project to convert its Trailblazer natural gas pipeline to CO2 transportation service, establishing an approximately 400-mile CO2 pipeline to serve as the backbone of a regional CO2 transportation system.
This interstate coalition between Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah contracts with Atkins Nuclear Solutions and includes regional utilities. The group is proposing to build eight major hydrogen projects that will replace coal-fired power plants and supply a mix of hydrogen and natural gas to local communities and for transportation. The projects would generate 1,000… Continue reading Western Interstate Hydrogen Hub (WISHH) (encouraged)
In February 2022, ExxonMobil announced it had made a final investment decision to expand carbon capture and storage at its LaBarge, Wyoming, facility, which started capturing CO2 for EOR in the 1980s. The expansion project is expected to capture up to 1.2 million metric tons of CO2, in addition to the 6-7 million metric tons… Continue reading Shute Creek Carbon Capture Expansion
