Chevron expands Bayou Bend CCS capacity

Bayou Bend CCS, a joint venture of Chevron, Talos Energy and Carbonvert, said March 6 it had expanded its carbon capture and storage (CCS) footprint with the acquisition of nearly 100,000 acres of potential pore space onshore Texas.

Combined with 40,000 offshore acres of pore space, Bayou Bend now encompasses 140,000 acres of sequestration space, enough to store more than 1bn metric tons of CO₂ and making it one of the largest carbon storage projects in the US.

“Delivering CCUS and other lower carbon solutions to harder-to-abate industries is fundamental to Chevron New Energies’ mission,” said Chris Power, Vice President CCUS at Chevron New Energies. “With this expansion, Bayou Bend is positioned to offer CCUS solutions across a broad region of the Gulf Coast, from Houston to Orange and into western Louisiana.”

Chevron, with a 50% equity interest in Bayou Bend CCS, took over as operator on March 1. Talos Energy and Carbonvert share equally in the remaining 50% of Bayou Bend CCS.