ExxonMobil Plans Three New CCS Startups in Texas and Louisiana This Year

A final investment decision is also expected by year end for the company’s first low-carbon data center project.

CF Industries’ complex on the Mississippi River in Donaldson, Louisiana, is the largest ammonia production facility in the world, and the state’s largest carbon dioxide emitter. Source: CF Industries.

ExxonMobil said it expects to start up three new carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in Texas and Louisiana this year, following the successful startup of its first commercial CCS project in 2025.

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In July, ExxonMobil began operations at a CCS facility designed to transport and inject up to 2 mtpa of CO2 from the world’s largest ammonia complex operated by CF Industries in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. CF Industries is using the project to produce what it markets as low-carbon ammonia, making the facility eligible for US tax credits tied to the permanent storage of CO2.

The US supermajor also highlighted on 26 January that it signed contracts with AtmosClear and Lake Charles Methanol II to transport and store up to 2 mtpa of CO2 emissions cumulatively from their respective projects in Louisiana. These agreements bring ExxonMobil’s CCS client list to six customers representing about 9 mtpa of contracted CO2.

Companies working with ExxonMobil’s CCS business span the power, methanol, steel, ammonia, natural gas processing, and industrial gas sectors. Upcoming projects include a New Generation Gas Gathering natural gas processing facility in Louisiana, as well as projects with Linde and Nucor.

ExxonMobil has also signed an agreement with CF Industries to capture and store up to 500,000 metric tons annually of CO2 from a plant in Mississippi, with startup expected in 2028.

In addition, ExxonMobil expects to reach a final investment decision by year end on its first low-carbon data center. In 2024, the company proposed building an off-grid, natural gas–fired power plant to supply a dedicated source of electricity to a data center while capturing and storing more than 90% of the associated CO2 emissions.

ExxonMobil has previously said it believes artificial intelligence data centers could account for up to 20% of the CCS market by 2050.