Freeport LNG, Talos focus on upcoming initiatives

Freeport LNG operates one of many largest pure gasoline liquefaction and export amenities on this planet, and in late 2021, representatives for the ability introduced its plan to develop a brand new carbon seize and sequestration (CCS) challenge.

With Talos Power Inc. as its challenge supervisor and operator, the Freeport LNG (FLNG) CCS challenge will develop FLNG’s gasoline liquefaction capability to greater than 20 MPTA.

Roberto Ruiperez Vara, director of capital initiatives with Freeport LNG, mentioned the target is to enhance the corporate’s carbon footprint. “We have already got the bottom carbon footprint of all liquefaction vegetation all over the world as a result of we’re an all-electric facility,” Vara mentioned. “The entire drivers in our facility are electrical motors.”

Vara mentioned the challenge seeks to enhance plant operations and reliability. An outline of the challenge contains amenities for regasification, storage and a trucking facility, an underground storage cavern, the Stratton Bridge Meter Station and a liquefaction pretreatment and compression facility.

At the moment, the location has three trains and the corporate is planning to put in a fourth.

We’re going to gather the CO₂ stream from every of the trains in a standard pipeline that may undergo the vegetation,” Vara added, noting that one of many challenges can be establishing the pipeline in a facility because it conducts ongoing operations.

The FLNG CCS challenge is a part of a portfolio that joins 4 different Talos initiatives alongside the Gulf Coast, mentioned Cory Weinbel, director of carbon seize utilization and storage initiatives with Talos Power.

“This challenge is completely different in that we name it ‘a sequestration level supply storage challenge,’” Weinbel mentioned. “What which means is that every part we’re doing is self-contained inside the space the place we’re gathering emissions. Our entire concept is to completely restore the CO₂ proper there on our property. We’re an injection of about 650 tons each year, most.”

“That is very low-pressure CO₂” Weinbel mentioned, becoming a member of Vara on a panel on the Carbon Seize, Utilization and Storage Discussion board, held not too long ago in Houston. “My guys name it ‘acid gasoline’ as a result of it has sufficient water in it that it’s very corrosive. We get CO₂ feed, which is primarily water, and take it as much as the acreage the place we place it in what we name the central gathering facility.”

This goal, Weinbel mentioned, is to spice up the stress sufficient to the place it may well get injected into the injection properly. At the moment, Weinbel elaborated, the plan requires having one major injection properly.

“It’s really situated exterior of a levee with a street on it, so it permits entry to Freeport LNG’s plant,” Weinbel continued. “One of many challenges we face on this challenge is that the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers is executing a levee peak enhance on the similar time. We’re seeing this not simply right here but in addition in Bayou Bend within the Port Arthur, Texas, space which is our different challenge space.”

This simultaneous exercise “provides some complexity” for individuals who handle initiatives, Weinbel mentioned. “As you possibly can think about, it’s going to impression issues like entry to the location, and sharing assets,” he mentioned, including that merely accessing the levee or doing something at, close to or on the levee could be very troublesome.

Weinbel mentioned it comes as no shock that the allowing and regulatory facet is an extra, important problem, and there are much more regulatory points introduced on by the character of the world, such because the close by wetlands.

The primary injection is predicted to happen by year-end 2024, Weinbel concluded.