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CF Industries starts-up Donaldsonville carbon capture unit
The Low Carbon Briefing
Development Activity
Tenaska permits first West Virginia CCS monitoring well for Project Redbud in Hancock County
NexGen Carbon leases 75,000 acres in Osage Nation, Oklahoma and submits a 10 well storage development Class VI application
CF Industries starts-up Donaldsonville carbon capture unit
CF Industries has brought into service the CO₂ dehydration and compression facility at its Donaldsonville Complex in Louisiana. This enables the transport and permanent geological storage of up to 2 million metric tons of CO₂ per year
The project is expected to enable production of approximately 1.9 million metric tons of low‑carbon ammonia annually
The Donaldsonville project is part of CF Industries’ broader decarbonization efforts. A parallel project at Yazoo City, Mississippi, aims to capture up to 500,000 metric tons of CO₂ annually, with sequestration expected to begin in 2028
ExxonMobil is the carbon transportation and sequestration partner.
Initially, CO₂ is being stored via enhanced oil recovery; once regulatory approvals are secured, ExxonMobil will shift to dedicated permanent storage through its Rose CCS project along the Gulf Coast. A draft Class VI permit for Rose has been issued by the U.S. EPA in July 2025, with final approval expected later this year
Canada Invests in Carbon Capture and Storage in Alberta
The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources announced over $21.5 million in funding for innovative, made-in-Canada carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies — supporting projects ranging from CO₂ storage site development and subsurface analysis to cleaner diesel engine advancements.
Name | Amount | Description |
|---|---|---|
Bow Valley Carbon (Inter Pipeline, Entropy) | $10,000,000 | This project will design and install a CO2 compression and conditioning system, transportation pipeline and sequestration well. Together, these components will aim to capture 40,000 tonnes of CO2/year from the Interpipeline Cochrane Natural Gas Extraction Plant. |
The Wabamun Hub CO2 Storage Optimization Project (Enbridge) | $4,000,000 | This project will characterize deep saline reservoirs in Central Alberta. It supports Enbridge’s Open Access Wabamun Hub being developed north and west of Edmonton to provide dedicated, utility-scale CO2 transportation and storage solutions serving CO2 capture projects including Heidelberg Materials’ Edmonton capture project. |
Enhance’s Origins CCS Hub (Enhance Energy) | $5,000,000 | This project will use a wide range of subsurface data to support the Origins CCS Hub. This approach, which targets a pressure-depleted saline aquifer within a Canadian carbonate reservoir, has the potential to support hub development in novel geologies without access to the Basal Cambrian Sandstone. |
Geophysical Subsurface Imaging and Analytics Evaluation (OptiSeis Solutions) | $538,000 | This project aims to improve the cost-effectiveness of new and existing subsurface analysis technologies for measurement, monitoring and verification of CO2 geological storage. |
Development of Oxy-Fire Combustion for Diesel Generator CO2 Capture (OCCAM’s Technologies) | $2,016,364 | This project will investigate and test modifications to diesel engines to enable cost-effective, small-scale carbon capture using exhaust gas recirculation. This approach has the potential to develop economically viable capture processes for distributed emission sources in hard-to-decarbonize industries such as locomotive rail transport, marine shipping and heavy-duty trucking. |
MHI to lead Japan’s largest carbon capture project
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) announced it has been awarded a basic design (FEED) contract by Hokkaido Electric Power Company (HEPCO) for a CO₂ capture plant at the Tomato‑Atsuma Power Station in Hokkaido
The planned facility will capture approximately 1.9 million tons per year from combustion flue gases—making it Japan’s largest CO₂ capture plant once built
CO₂ is to be sequestered offshore near Tomakomai as METI has designated a sea area as the first “specified area” under Japan’s Carbon Dioxide Storage Business Act, and exploratory drilling is underway
Project partners include HEPCO, Idemitsu Kosan, and Japan Petroleum Exploration
Microsoft to purchase 2.95 million CDRs from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Joint Venture
Microsoft has signed a long-term offtake deal with Gaia, a joint venture formed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Vestforbrænding in Denmark, to purchase 2.95 million tons of carbon removal credits - beginning 2029
These credits will come from a waste-to-energy (EfW) facility in Nordhavn/Glostrup, retrofitted with a carbon capture to capture and sequester up to 500,000 tons of CO₂ per year
The CO₂ will be transported and permanently stored underground, and a portion offsets Vestforbrænding’s own carbon neutrality, while the rest are sold as credits
The Gaia project was pre-qualified in Denmark’s Carbon Capture and Storage Fund, with final subsidy award decisions expected later in the year
