Oxy advances DAC amid regulatory uncertainty

The Low Carbon Briefing

May 19, 2025

Tallgrass permits Spirea injection well for their Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub

ADNOC’s clean energy arm, XRG, is evaluating up to $500 million dollar investment into Oxy’s 500,000 ton per year DAC facility in Kleburg County, Texas
The agreement signals continued international investment into the U.S. given the IRA uncertainties in Washington. Last year, Oxy was awarded up to $500 million dollars from the Department of Energy for development but may be cut or reduced.
Oxy’s South Texas Hub amounts to over 100,000 acres for CCS development, 2 stratigraphic wells, and a 6 well Class VI application already in the EPA’s queue
South Texas hub is Oxy’s 2nd most mature DAC project, first being the permitted STRATOS DAC facility in West Texas

This initiative aims to reduce Denmark's annual CO₂ emissions by 2.3 million tonnes starting in 2030 - Funding will be paid out per tonne of CO₂ captured and stored. The CO2 must be captured within the country but can be geologically stored either in Denmark or abroad.
The next steps involve submitting detailed project proposals, with initial offers due by August 26, 2025, followed by negotiations and final offers by December 17, 2025. Contract awards are anticipated in April 2026

Company	Sector	Project
AffaldPlus	Waste to Energy	150,000 ton/yr project with European Energy and Ammongas
ARGO CCS	Waste to Energy	Capturing CO2 from ARGO's CHP plant emits when converting residual waste into district heating and electricity
E.ON Carbon Capture Solutions	Waste to Energy	E.ON and the intermunicipal waste company ARC aims to capture a total of 400,000 tons of CO2 annually from the stack at CopenHill for sequestration.
Energnist CaptureCo	Waste to Energy	Energnist is working to establish carbon capture at the waste energy plants in Kolding and Esbjerg
Fjernvarme Fyn Fangst	Waste to Energy	Waste to energy plant in Odense, Denmark.
Gaia	Waste to Energy	CIP-Vestforbraending Joint Venture (Gaia) to develop 500 ktpa CCS at Vestforbrænding
HOFOR	Waste to Energy	City of Copenhagen owned CHP plant for bio-Carbon Capture
Kredsløb	Waste to Energy	Carbon capture at Kredsløb CHP
Ørsted Bioenergy & Thermal Power	Biomass power generation	430,000 tonnes of CO2 from two heat and power plants with North Sea storage
Aalborg Portland	Cement	ACCSION project to avoid 1.5 millon tons CO2 at Aalborg facility

Infinium has commenced construction on a commercial-scale,100 Megawatt e-fuels facility in West Texas, known as Project Roadrunner.
The project is being development in ClearShift’s Toyah Gas-to-Liquid facility in Pecos, Texas
To facilitate development, Infinium signed a 10 year offtake agreement with International Airlines Group (IAG) who is the parent company for British Airways, Iberia, Vueling, and Air Lingus - in addition to the $1.1 billion dollar investment by Brookfield last September
Electric Hydrogen will provide the 100 MW electrolyzers (HYPRPlant) to the project. Electric Hydrogen manufactures HYPRPlants domesticallys: its proprietary electrochemical stacks are built in Electric Hydrogen’s Massachusetts gigafactory while the chemical process modules are manufactured in Texas.
Infinium is actively developing over 12 additional e-fuel projects across the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia .

Commissioned earlier this year, Kassø is now operational and supplying European-compliant e-methanol to LEGO, Maersk and Novo Nordisk
European Energy (51%) and Mitsui (49%) flagship project signals that synthetic fuel project are achievable at scale and can secure long term offtake agreements
The project produces e-methanol by combining green hydrogen from solar energy and captured biogenic CO2. The resulting carbon intensity is 97% lower than traditional fossil fuel based methanol