French energy major TotalEnergies, U.S. LNG company Sempra Infrastructure, Japanese energy company Mitsui, and Japan’s trading company Mitsubishi Corporation have signed an agreement for the development of the Hackberry Carbon Sequestration (HCS) project at Cameron LNG, Louisiana, U.S.

The HCS project is primarily designed for the capture, transportation, and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) from Cameron LNG, a natural gas liquefaction and export facility.

With this project, the CO2 will be captured by the acid gas removal units, dehydrated, compressed, and transported by pipeline about ten kilometers away. HCS proposes to construct and operate the Hackberry Sequestration Project facilities to sequester up to 4.5 MM Metric Tons per year (“MT/yr”) of captured carbon via injection into up to three (3) storage wells. The first application is for the first of those three (3) wells and will be designed to sequester 2 MM MT/yr.