ExxonMobil and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have joined forces to deploy MHI’s CO2 capture technology as part of ExxonMobil’s end-to-end carbon capture and storage (CCS) solution for industrial customers.

The companies bring complementary capabilities to facilitate industry decarbonisation projects, said ExxonMobil.

The companies will be supported by Kansai Electric Power (KEPCO) to advance carbon capture technologies that could reduce the cost of CO2 capture for heavy-emitting industrial customers. The joint effort will build upon KM CDR Process and Advanced KM CDR Process, developed jointly by MHI and KEPCO, the only liquid amine carbon capture technology anywhere commercially demonstrated at greater than 1 million tonnes per year. 

Oil supermajor ExxonMobil has more than 30 years of experience capturing and transporting CO2 and injecting it into geological formations. ExxonMobil says it has captured more CO2 than any other company – 120 million tonnes – accounting for approximately 40% of all the anthropogenic CO2 that has ever been captured, it says.

ExxonMobil is one of 14 companies in the greater Houston area interested in capturing CO2 emissions from their petrochemical, refining and power generation facilities. The company has also announced plans to build a blue hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest CCS projects at its integrated site in Baytown, Texas.

ExxonMobil and MHI have worked together to build world-scale petrochemical plants over the past two decades in Baytown and well as in Corpus Christi, also in Texas, and in Singapore.

Tokyo-based MHI is the world’s largest licensor of post-combustion CO2 capture technology and has been developing it for more than three decades. MHI’s record includes 14 commercial CO2 capture plants already delivered worldwide.

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