Development Activity
Aethon Energy permits 2 well Class VI development in East Texas
Frontier Carbon Solutions drills J-15 injection well
Harvestone permits Class VI well for IBEC ethanol facility CCS in Indiana
Aethon Energy develops East Texas CCS asset
Aethon Energy has filed its first Texas Class VI permit application, designated TXCCS#1, for a two-well development in Sabine and San Augustine counties. The project is designed to store CO₂ using Aethon’s existing infrastructure and regional assets. The company has drilled 3 stratigraphic wells to test storage potential in Texas and Louisiana.
This marks Aethon’s second overall Class VI filing, following the LA Wilcox Project in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, which targets six injection wells.
Together, these projects aim to capture and sequester CO₂ from Aethon’s 10 amine treating facilities and nearby natural gas processing plants, supporting the production of lower-carbon-intensity natural gas.
Harvestone Low Carbon Partners will decarbonize second ethanol facility
Harvestone Low Carbon Partners submitted their Class VI permit to capture and sequester biogenic CO2 from their IBEC (Iroquois Bio-Energy) ethanol facility in Rensselaer, Indiana. This comes after a successful stratigraphic well test to confirm CO2 storage feasibility.
The 60 million gallon per year ethanol facility produces approximately 180,000 tons of biogenic CO2 per year that will soon be sequestered.
This project comes after the success at Harvestone's Blue Flint Carbon Capture project in North Dakota.
This marks another ethanol plant that will have on-site sequestration to enable carbon capture. Over the past 3 years, the growth of source-to-sink ethanol CCS projects have grown rapidly.
Carbon management services in the Midwest have been led by Vault 44.01 and DTE Energy for carbon storage and Pelican Energy Consultants for carbon capture
Indorama and Block Energy partners for carbon capture in Eastern Europe
Block Energy has identified a world-class carbon capture and storage (CCS) opportunity within its Block XIB licence in Georgia, with studies estimating up to 256 million tonnes of reservoir-scale storage ranking among the largest in Europe. The geology is ideally suited for mineralisation, a method proven in Iceland, where injected CO2 rapidly reacts with volcanic rocks to form stable carbonates.
Building on this potential, Block recently executed the first successful CO₂ injection pilot of its kind in Eastern Europe, safely delivering and injecting liquid CO₂ with no surface leakage detected.
The company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Rustavi Azot, a subsidiary of Indorama Corporation, to jointly progress technical and commercial studies.
North Dakota Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider a landowners’ lawsuit over the state’s carbon dioxide storage law
Equinor, Shell, TotalEnergies Northern Lights project begins injection offshore Norway
Lhyfe has begun delivering renewable hydrogen to Essent (Nefit Bosch facility) as part of the GROHW project
Scottish Power cancels green hydrogen plans in the UK, despite securing subsidies
