[ExxonMobil starts CCS at Nucor's Convent DRI plant]

Published: Sep 16, 2026 15:43 (GMT+8)

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ExxonMobil has begun carbon capture and storage (CCS) at Nucor's direct reduced iron (DRI) plant in Convent, Louisiana, capturing, transporting and storing up to 800,000 tonnes of CO2 a year to support the lowest-carbon DRI at scale in North America. It is ExxonMobil's third CCS startup for a third-party customer and second in 2026. Meanwhile, the Rose storage project won Texas Railroad Commission approval; a draft permit issued in July 2025 covers three Class VI wells in Jefferson County, Texas, allowing permanent storage of up to 5 million tonnes of CO2 a year for 13 years. Rose is the first Class VI site in ExxonMobil's Gulf Coast CCS network, serving industrial customers such as Nucor.

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