Exxon ramps up low-carbon solutions business on Gulf Coast

(The Center Square) – ExxonMobil has begun transporting and storing carbon dioxide produced at an ammonia manufacturing complex in Louisiana and plans to expand the company’s low carbon solutions business on the Gulf Coast.

In December, the Houston-based company began using an existing pipeline to move up to 2 million metric tons of carbon produced annually at the CF Industries plant near Baton Rouge for burial about 7,500 feet underground at the company’s Rose Carbon Capture and Storage Hub in east Texas.

In October, the Environmental Protection Agency granted ExxonMobil the permit needed to inject carbon dioxide underground at the Rose Hub, which the company intends to use as a permanent storage center for carbon captured at industrial plants along its Gulf Coast pipeline network.

In 2026, ExxonMobil plans to start up three more carbon capture and sequestration projects in Louisiana, said Dominic Genetti, senior vice president of the company’s Low Carbon Solutions business unit, in an online po...