CF Industries, a producer of hydrogen and nitrogen products, has entered into commercial agreement with ExxonMobil to capture and permanently store up to 2 MtCO2/year from its manufacturing complex in Louisiana. Start-up for the project is scheduled for early 2025. CF Industries expects to market up to 1.7 Mt/tear of blue ammonia annually. A chemical process is considered blue when CO2 emissions are captured before their release into the air, making the process more carbon-neutral.
CF Industries will spend US$ $200 million to build a CO2 dehydration and compression unit at its Donaldsonville, Louisiana, facility to enable captured CO2 to be transported and stored. ExxonMobil will then transport and permanently store the captured CO2 in secure geologic storage it owns in Vermilion Parish. As part of the project, ExxonMobil has signed an agreement with EnLink Midstream to use EnLink’s transportation network to deliver CO2 to permanent geologic storage.