ESG & Investing

Exxon Sees Its First Gulf Coast Carbon Capture Project Starting Next Year

  • Project still needs final regulatory approval for wells
  • Executive says project on track to start up ‘on time’

Exxon sees carbon capture as key to reducing emissions while also retaining the benefits of fossil fuels.

Photographer: Callaghan O'Hare/Bloomberg
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Exxon Mobil Corp. is on track to start up its first US Gulf Coast carbon-capture project next year if it can gain regulatory approval to drills wells that would store emissions underground.

The oil major plans to take as much as 2 million tons of CO2 emissions from CF Industries Holdings Inc.’s ammonia plant in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and pump them into permanent storage in rock formations deep below the ground.