Technip Energies, Turner secure EPC contract for ExxonMobil's carbon capture project

Engineering company Technip Energies, in consortium with Turner Industries, has been awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract by ExxonMobil for the Louisiana carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, as announced on June 6.

Technip Energies will oversee the engineering and procurement, while Turner Industries will handle the construction. The contract is part of ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions' plans to deliver a carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) system capable of conditioning, compressing, and transporting up to 800,000 tonnes/year of CO2 from a manufacturing plant located in Convent, Louisiana, owned by Nucor Corporation, North America’s largest steel producer and recycler.

The Nucor manufacturing site produces direct reduced iron (DRI), a raw material mixed with recycled scrap at Nucor steel mills to make higher grades of steel products, including automobile parts, household appliances, and tools and machinery.

The CCUS system is designed to enable the Nucor facility to produce DRI with up to 80% less greenhouse gas emissions than traditional blast furnace iron production. ExxonMobil selected Technip Energies to perform the front-end engineering design (FEED), and together with Turner Industries, worked to solidify the EPC execution approach.