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Carbon capture and storage

Reducing carbon footprints by growing capabilities

Leading with carbon capture and storage
ExxonMobil is expanding proven technologies like carbon capture and storage to help meet society’s lower-emission goals. We can manage the lifecycle of carbon from capture, transportation, and storage with a vast network that can integrate into customers’ assets and logistical footprints. Customers can benefit from our knowledge of how to build large projects combined with subsurface expertise.

Today, we are delivering real world progress to hard-to-abate sectors seeking to reduce their emissions. Already, we have committed to transporting and storing more than 14 million metric tons of CO2 per year from our customers, more than any other company.

Customers are seeing a pathway to scaling carbon capture and storage, leveraging our work to provide solutions as we expand our infrastructure in key industrial hubs.
Carbon capture and storage

Capturing, transporting and storing carbon. See how we are leading the energy transition, now and at scale.

 


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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

A technology alliance advancing real solutions

Our collaboration with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries leverages the technical expertise of two companies that are leading in the carbon capture and storage space. 

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

LaBarge

Expanding capacity to meet demand

LaBarge, Wyoming is home to our facility where we have been capturing carbon for more than 30 years. New investments at LaBarge means that we’ll capture more carbon going forward. 

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LaBarge

ExxonMobil leadership and progress

9 M

Current capture capacity of 9 million metric tons per year.

~150 M

Cumulative capture of almost 150 million metric tons to date.1

35 %

Our facilities account for approximately 35% of all human-produced CO2 captured.2

Growing CCS Capabilities

ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions is growing its CCS capabilities, having secured new agreements with customers and now operating the largest CO2 network of pipelines in the United States.
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Tapping into our CO2 infrastructure

We have decades of expertise in managing and moving molecules. Now, we own and operate the largest network of CO2 pipelines in the United States – more than 1,500 miles - that allows greater speed to market for our customers seeking a real carbon capture and storage solution. 

These are just some of the benefits we can bring to the market:

  • Existing pipeline infrastructure allows greater speed to market
  • Experience with permitting process creates streamlined approach to project development
  • Accessible infrastructure near emission sources
  • Integration enabled by 925 miles of pipelines in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi near emitters

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ExxonMobil’s Low Carbon Solutions team can help you build a holistic emissions-reduction program that includes carbon capture and storage.

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Safety at a glance

Safety is priority one at ExxonMobil and scaling carbon capture and storage requires specific considerations.

  • Potential carbon capture and storage locations are carefully selected to ensure carbon dioxide remains safely and securely underground.
  • CO2 is typically stored at depths of greater than 800 meters below the earth’s surface. 
  • Thick, impermeable rocks seal the formations to hold carbon dioxide in place. 
  • Stored carbon dioxide is monitored with technologies to ensure safe and permanent containment.

Why is carbon capture and storage needed? 

Carbon capture and storage is critical in the energy transition.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Energy Agency agree that carbon capture and storage is one of the most cost-effective ways to decarbonize emission-intensive sectors, including chemicals and refining, cement production, and the iron and steel industries. 

Additionally, carbon capture and storage is recognized as one of the few technologies that can enable negative carbon dioxide emissions when combined with bio-energy or direct air capture. According to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, carbon capture and storage can capture more than 90% of emissions from power plants and industrial facilities.3

FOOTNOTES:

  1. Global CCS Institute 2022 Cumulative CO2 Capture Facilities Analysis conducted for ExxonMobil
  2. GCCSI Historical Carbon Capture Volumes 2023
  3. Carbon Capture | Center for Climate and Energy Solutions