Aptamus Carbon Solutions, a subsidiary of Overseas Shipholding Group, and Entr, the consultancy arm of Aker Solutions, have entered into an agreement for front-end engineering and design of CO2 terminals in Florida and Louisiana. Entr will conduct FEED for a temporary storage and liquefaction processing terminal at Port Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida, and a discharge and regasification terminal at LBC Tank Terminals in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, supporting Aptamus’s CO2 maritime transport and storage programme, Carbon Ocean and Storage Transport 20 (COAST20).
COAST20 was selected for an award to be partially funded by the US Department of Energy. The programme includes design of a 20,000-tonne liquefied CO2 tank vessel which will be the first built in the United States, the Port Tampa Bay intermodal hub site collecting captured CO2 from emitters across Florida, and the LBC receiving port on the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, adjacent to an existing dedicated CO2 pipeline system for delivery to permanent underground storage sites. Port Tampa Bay and LBC are partners in the COAST20 project.
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Knut Egil Pedersen, vice president of hydrogen and CO2 at Aker Solutions, expressed excitement about bringing pioneering expertise in designing and building CO2 terminals and first-of-their-kind carbon removal projects to Florida. He stated that having advised on optimised solutions in early development phases, Entr will now execute these in a cost-effective, industrialised project environment, combining North American team expertise with global experience to support safe processing, storage, and transport of CO2 from Tampa Bay to Louisiana.
Jeffrey Ross Williams, president of Aptamus, stated that Aptamus has strategically expanded capabilities to offer Florida’s largest CO2 emitters a supply chain solution for safe and efficient removal of captured CO2 from the state. He characterised Entr’s development of the Port Tampa Bay hub and LBC Tank Terminals site as offering the ideal solution for managing captured CO2 in Florida. Williams noted that COAST20 will allow power generation companies to meet increasing electricity demand in Florida whilst managing carbon output to meaningfully impact the environment and human health.
The COAST20 programme addresses emerging requirements for CO2 transport and storage infrastructure supporting carbon capture deployment. Florida’s CO2 emitters lack proximate geological storage formations suitable for permanent sequestration, necessitating transport solutions connecting emission sources with suitable Gulf Coast storage sites.
The maritime transport approach utilises purpose-built liquefied CO2 carriers connecting Florida collection points with Louisiana delivery terminals adjacent to existing CO2 pipeline infrastructure. Port Tampa Bay serves as collection hub enabling aggregation of CO2 from multiple Florida sources, with temporary storage and liquefaction processing preparing CO2 for ship loading.
LBC Tank Terminals’ Baton Rouge location provides strategic positioning on the Mississippi River with existing liquid bulk storage infrastructure and proximity to established CO2 pipeline systems. The discharge and regasification terminal will receive liquefied CO2 from vessels, return it to a gaseous phase, and inject it into pipelines for delivery to permanent storage sites.
US Department of Energy funding support reflects federal policy priorities for carbon capture, utilisation, and storage infrastructure development. Aker Solutions’ experience in CO2 handling infrastructure from North Sea projects provides relevant technical expertise for COAST20.
FEED work establishes detailed technical specifications, equipment selections, process designs, safety systems, and cost estimates supporting final investment decisions. The project exemplifies emerging carbon management infrastructure connecting emission sources lacking proximate storage with suitable geological formations via multimodal transport, potentially establishing models for similar regional approaches addressing commercial-scale CCS deployment requirements.
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