Denbury Inc. announced on March 17 three new lease agreements with large private landowners in Louisiana, securing additional exclusive rights to develop significant carbon sequestration projects in high quality, high-capacity reservoirs underlying deep sealing formations along the state's industrial corridor.
In a press release, Denbury said that two of the agreements cover a contiguous area of approximately 84,000 acres located approximately thirty miles southeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Denbury estimates this site will provide more than 500 million metric tons of potential CO2 sequestration capacity.
The company plans to initially connect emissions from nearby industrial facilities to this site, with future plans for a pipeline connection to the company's Green Pipeline in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. The planned pipeline route is within 10 miles of multiple industrial sources that collectively emit over 20 million metric tons of CO2 annually. According to Denbury, this site will provide an economic, large-scale solution for the transportation and permanent sequestration of captured industrial emissions along the Louisiana industrial corridor between Donaldsonville and lower Plaquemines Parish.
Denbury also executed a new pore space agreement adjacent to the acreage leased under the company's recently announced agreement near Donaldsonville, Louisiana. This new agreement expands the potential volume of CO2 that Denbury estimates can be sequestered at the combined site to more than 220 million metric tons, approximately a 50% expansion to the original site. The combined 11,000-acre site is located less than 10 miles from the company's existing CO2 pipeline infrastructure, and there are approximately 30 million metric tons of CO2 currently emitted annually within a 20-mile radius of the site.
"These agreements further cement Denbury's position as the definitive leader in CCUS, and we are continuing to advance negotiations with multiple industrial partners whose captured emissions would be stored in these sites," Chris Kendall, Denbury's president and CEO, said in a statement.
"Looking forward, we are poised for continued growth and success in the emissions-intensive Gulf Coast region, as we significantly expand our storage capacity through the addition of a diverse portfolio of sequestration sites, exemplified by the agreements announced today."
Denbury is an independent energy company with operations and assets focused on CCCUS and EOR in the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions. The Denbury Carbon Solutions team was formed in January 2020 to advance Denbury's leadership in the anticipated high-growth CCUS industry.
Denbury now has exclusive rights to develop pore space storage with an estimated capacity of more than 1.4 billion metric tons of CO2. Denbury's position in CCUS is supported by over 20 years of experience transporting and injecting CO2 underground and more than 1,300 miles of CO2 pipelines through which the company is currently moving in excess of 14 million metric tons of CO2 annually.
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