Gulf Coast Sequestration (GCS) seeks to build and operate the United States premier saline sequestration asset, Project Minerva, in the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Once completed, the GCS “hub” is expected to be the largest geologic carbon capture sequestration project in the United States and one of the largest in the world, designed to permanently store more than 80 million tons of carbon in a saline aquifer with the capacity to sequester 2,700,000 tons of CO2 annually.

Project Minerva envisions sourcing CO₂ volumes from industrial producers of CO₂ in the Eastern Texas and Southwestern Louisiana industrial corridors.

Connection to Project Cypress (DAC):

The DOE recently announced funding for a DAC Hub in Calcasieu, LA. Minerva is not mentioned by name, but Gulf Coast Sequestration is mentioned for facilitating geologic storage.

[DOE announcement] (https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-12-billion-nations-first-direct-air-capture)

Project Cypress (Calcasieu Parish, LA): Battelle, in coordination with Climeworks Corporation and Heirloom Carbon Technologies, Inc., aims to capture more than 1 million metric tons of existing CO2 from the atmosphere each year and store it permanently deep underground. This hub intends to rely on Gulf Coast Sequestration for offtake and geologic storage of captured atmospheric CO2.