CF Industries Announces $198.5 Million Carbon Capture Project At Donaldsonville Complex

DONALDSONVILLE, La. – CF Industries plans to take a position $198.5 million to assemble a CO2 compression and dehydration unit at its Ascension Parish plant in an effort to cut back carbon emissions at what it says is the most important ammonia manufacturing facility on the planet. 

The undertaking would create 12 new direct jobs with common salaries of $100,000 per yr plus advantages. CF Industries would retain 521 current jobs within the Capital Area. 

“To realize our objective of web zero emissions by 2050, Louisiana should concurrently improve new clear vitality investments and reduce present greenhouse gasoline emissions,” Gov. John Bel Edwards stated. “CF Industries’ plan so as to add carbon seize capabilities to its Donaldsonville plant accomplishes that, whereas stimulating financial exercise and creating high-paying jobs in Ascension Parish. We applaud the corporate’s dedication to sustainability and encourage different business leaders to acknowledge that decarbonization is nice for each our financial system and our local weather.” 

CF Industries estimates this undertaking would allow as much as 6,000 tons of course of CO2 per day – as a lot as 2 million tons per yr – to be captured, liquefied and transported by way of pipeline to a sequestration website but to be decided. This course of would allow the corporate to supply as much as 1.7 million tons of blue ammonia yearly. A chemical course of is taken into account “blue” when CO2 emissions are captured earlier than their launch into the air, making the method extra carbon-neutral. Blue ammonia is seen as a key clear vitality supply for the vitality transition since its parts – nitrogen and hydrogen – don’t emit carbon when combusted.

“We imagine that ammonia will play a crucial function in accelerating the world’s transition to wash vitality and that demand for blue ammonia for this objective will develop meaningfully within the coming years,” stated Tony Will, president and chief government officer, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. “We’re happy to have the ability to leverage our earlier investments in Louisiana so as to add CO2 processing know-how to our Donaldsonville advanced that may allow a major quantity of blue ammonia manufacturing by the center of the last decade. This can place CF Industries and Louisiana on the forefront of this rising world market.”

The undertaking is the second this yr by a Louisiana firm geared toward decreasing current greenhouse gasoline emissions, following Cleco’s April announcement of a $900 million funding so as to add carbon seize and sequestration to its Boyce, La., energy plant. 

“CF Industries is accelerating the transition to wash vitality, serving as a pacesetter within the manufacturing of inexperienced ammonia and now within the building of infrastructure for the everlasting sequestration of carbon dioxide,” stated Clint Cointment, Ascension Parish President. “Ascension Parish is proud to be the placement for this funding by CF Industries that creates a cleaner, sustainable future.”

CF Industries’ utility for participation within the State of Louisiana’s Industrial Tax Exemption program has obtained Board of Commerce and Trade and all essential native authorities entity approvals. The corporate can also be anticipated to make the most of the state’s performance-based High quality Jobs program.

“This funding by CF Industries additional exemplifies why Ascension Parish is a perfect location for the manufacturing of sustainable, clear applied sciences for each vitality and emissions reductions,” stated Ascension Financial Growth Company President & CEO Kate MacArthur.

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