Technip and Turner team up for ExxonMobil CCUS contract

USA

CONVENT, June 7, 2024 – Technip Energies and Turner Industries have been awarded an EPC contract by ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions Onshore Storage for the delivery of a CCUS system for a manufacturing plant in Louisiana, Technip announced on Thursday.

The contract calls for a CCUS system to condition, compress and transport, for eventual storage, up to 800,000 tpy of carbon dioxide from a manufacturing plant owned by Nucor Corporation, North America’s largest steel producer and recycler.

Nucor’s plant produces direct reduced iron (DRI), a raw material that is mixed with recycled scrap to make higher grades of steel products such as automobile parts, machinery and household appliances. The CCUS system is designed to enable the production of DRI with up to 80% less greenhouse gas emissions than traditional blast furnace iron production.

Technip has already carried out the FEED and will oversee the engineering and procurement, while Turner will be responsible for the construction.

The value of the contract was not disclosed.

“By supporting ExxonMobil’s planned emissions reduction project at the Nucor direct reduced iron plant, we together with our partner Turner Industries, are directly contributing to emissions reductions of hard-to-abate industries,” said Christophe Malaurie, Technip’s SVP of decarbonization solutions.

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