Carbon Engineering, a Canadian direct air capture (DAC) and air-to-fuel (ATF) startup, has commenced a Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study to deploy DAC facilities at a second site in Kleberg County, Texas. The new site will consist of multiple DAC facilities removing up to 30 million tons of CO2 per annum.

Carbon Engineering was contracted by its US development partner 1PointFive. The design adapted by the latter’s first large-scale commercial facility together with Occidental will be replicated at the second site as well. The new site is planned to begin operations by late 2024.

Analyst QuickTake: In August 2022 , 1PointFive and Occidental announced plans to deploy its first large-scale commercial facility at the Texas Permian Basin. Similarly, Carbon Engineering was contracted to conduct a FEED study. This initial facility captures 500,000 tons of CO2 per annum, with plans to scale up to one million tons gradually. This facility will be 120x bigger compared to Climework’s Mammoth DAC facility in Iceland. This follows Carbon Engineering’s partnership with 1PointFive, to deploy Carbon Engineering’s DAC technology across the latter’s DAC projects globally in June 2022 .