Worley wins contract to develop Bayou Bend Carbon Capture Storage Project
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Worley, an Australia-based sustainability solutions company, has won a contract to develop and assess CO2 gathering, transportation and storage systems for the Bayou Bend carbon capture and storage (CCS) project located along the southeast coast of Texas.
Bayou Bend CCS LLC is a joint venture owned by Chevron, Equinor, and TotalEnergies to develop a carbon capture and storage facility in Southeast Texas. The project operates on a vast expanse of utilizing 140,000 acres of underground space near the US Gulf of Mexico coast. For the project to come alive, several different leases were secured. According to the Carbon Herald, nearly 40,000 acres under the Texas jurisdiction and an additional 100,000 acres from private landowners respectively were acquired to fuel this project.
As a result of winning the contract, Worley, will be responsible for developing and designing the carbon capture and storage facility which will be used to capture emissions from Southeast Texas. The project will be worked on by Worley’s teams from the Houston branch of the company with aid from Global Integrated Delivery teams based in India.
According to TotalEnergies, the Bayou Bend decarbonization plan has the capacity to store “hundred million” tonnes of CO2 in the facility created through shared efforts by industry leaders and environmental advocates.
Mark Trueman, Worley’s President for the Americas, showed confidence in the company’s track record of executing CCS initiatives across the world and its capability to do it once again. He also put emphasis on the vitality of projects like the Bayou Bend project in moving towards a relatively more sustainable future. Worley is determined to play a key role in facilitating corporates to achieve their targeted net-zero goals and decrease carbon footprint.
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