The University of Utah plans to establish the technical and economic feasibility of a commercial large-scale CO2 geologic storage complex in the Basin and Range province of southwestern Utah.

This project aims to store more than 50 million metric tons of anthropogenic CO2 sourced from Fervo Energy’s Red Rock Direct Air Capture Hub project and Utah Iron’s new Direct Reduced Iron facility, currently in the design and permitting stage.

The project will establish the feasibility of commercial storage through analysis of high-resolution characterization data, technical analysis, economic evaluations, and environmental analysis. The project will accelerate both Fervo Energy’s Red Rocks Direct Air Capture hub implementation and Utah Iron’s goal to be the Nation’s first green iron processing plant, by providing vital site assessment data for the commercial large-scale carbon capture and storage hub.