Venture Global LNG readies Louisiana CCS project

Venture Global LNG has unveiled plans to capture and sequester carbon at its Calcasieu Pass and Plaquemines LNG facilities.

Having concluded a comprehensive engineering and geotechnical analysis, the company is launching, subject only to regulatory approvals, a shovel-ready carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, compressing CO2 at its sites and then transporting the CO2 and injecting it deep into subsurface saline aquifers where it will be permanently stored.

Through this undertaking, Venture Global will capture and sequester an estimated 500,000 tons of carbon per year from its Calcasieu Pass and Plaquemines liquefaction sites.

Venture Global LNG anticipates using similar infrastructure to capture and sequester 500,000 tons of carbon per year from the Calcasieu Pass 2 LNG facility once permitted.

Altogether, Venture Global said in its statement it plans to sequester 1 million tons of carbon per year, the equivalent of removing nearly 200,000 cars off the road each year for 20 years.

The deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology at Calcasieu Pass would be the first of its kind for an existing LNG facility in the United States.

Commenting on the move, Venture Global CEO Mike Sabel, said, “Our location in Louisiana uniquely positions us to pioneer the deployment of this technology due to geology that can support industrial-scale injection and storage of CO2.”