Century Plant

Location: Texas, United States of America

Proponent: Occidental Petroleum (operator), Sandridge Energy (gas supplier)

Technical aspects

• Capture of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from a natural gas processing plant in West Texas using Honeywell UOP's Selexol CO₂capture technology.
• The Century Plant has an operational CO₂capture capacity of 8.4 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa).
• The CO₂ captured at the plant is transported by pipeline for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

Key Deliverables

• The first train of the plant has been in operation since the fourth quarter of 2010, with a capture capacity of 5 Mtpa of CO₂.
• The second train of the plant, which has a capacity of 3.4 Mtpa Mtpa of CO₂, was completed in late 2012.
• A new 260 km long pipeline was constructed from the plant, through McCamey, Texas, to the industry CO₂ hub in Denver City, Texas. 

Occidental Petroleum, along with Sandridge Energy, is operating a West Texas natural gas processing plant and related pipeline infrastructure that provides CO₂ for use in EOR. The CO₂ captured at the plant is being injected into the Kinder Morgan Permian delivery system. With a total CO₂ capture capacity of 8.4 Mtpa, the Century plant is the largest single industrial source CO₂ capture facility in North America.