Denbury today announced several new agreements related to its carbon capture, utilization and storage (“CCUS”) business and provided its 2023 goals, which are intended to further the Company’s leadership position in CCUS.

Chris Kendall, Denbury’s President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, 
“Today, we are announcing a number of new CCUS agreements, including CO2 transportation agreements for customers in the emerging eFuels industry, our first dedicated CO2 sequestration site in the Rocky Mountain region, and two new carbon capture technology investments. These agreements are focused on our strategy of rapidly capturing the CCUS market and expanding our CO2 service offering. The growth potential of our CCUS business is transformational, and our Company is fully aligned and focused on delivering innovative carbon solutions for a sustainable future.”

New CO2 transportation and/or storage agreements bring cumulative to more than 22 Mmtpa

The Company recently executed an agreement with HIF Global, a leading eFuels company that is targeting to build a 200 million gallon per year carbon-neutral eGasoline and eMethanol facility by 2027, with the potential to decarbonize the emissions equivalent of over 400,000 vehicles. Denbury and HIF are actively engaged in sourcing 2 million metric tons per year (“Mmtpa”) of industrial-sourced CO2 for transport and utilization at the planned Matagorda County, Texas, facility.

Denbury also executed an agreement with Monarch Energy Development LLC, a hydrogen and eFuels project developer. Monarch currently has eFuels production facilities under development in Freeport and Beaumont, Texas, with estimated first production by 2026. Under the agreement, Denbury will transport 0.4 Mmtpa of industrial-sourced CO2 to be used as a feedstock in the production process.

Initial dedicated CO2 storage site in Rocky Mountain region

In early 2023, the Company finalized a definitive agreement for the right to develop a dedicated CO2 sequestration site on nearly 15,000 acres in Campbell County, Wyoming, directly underneath the Company’s Greencore CO2 Pipeline. Denbury estimates potential CO2 sequestration capacity of the site (now named Corvus) to be 40 million metric tons.

Carbon capture technology investments expand CO2 service offering

Denbury recently invested in ION Clean Energy, an industry leader in liquid solvent technologies that capture over 95% of CO2 emissions while significantly reducing operating and capital costs for large-scale, post combustion CO2 emissions. https://ioncleanenergy.com/
The Company also recently completed an investment in Aqualung Carbon Capture, a leader in membrane CO2 capture and separation technology. The patented technology drives a passive CO2 separation, resulting in ability to economically capture 95%+ of CO2 emissions across low (<3%) and high (30%+) CO2 concentration levels. This highly scalable technology targets a wide range of both small and large sources of emissions. https://aqualung-cc.com/

Matt Dahan, Senior Vice President of CCUS Technology for Denbury stated, 
“We believe both Aqualung and ION are on the leading edge of reducing the cost of capture for a wide range of types and sizes of stationary CO2 emissions facilities. Our investments in these emerging technologies will bring additional transport and sequestration opportunities to Denbury, and we look forward to working with both.”

2023 CCUS GOALS

• Execute additional CO2 transportation and/or storage agreements from both brownfield and greenfield projects, so that by the end of 2023, Denbury’s cumulative agreements will cover CO2 emissions totaling 30 Mmtpa.
• Expand the Company’s dedicated CO2 storage portfolio with the acquisition of additional sequestration sites in strategic locations near areas with high concentrations of current and future CO2 emissions.
• Submit Class VI permits to the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on at least 4 of the Company’s CO2 sequestration sites. Denbury also targets drilling at least 2 stratigraphic test wells in 2023 on its CO2 sequestration sites. Drilling has recently commenced on the Company’s Orion site in Alabama.
• Enhance Denbury’s CCUS business with strategic partnerships and equity investments around the entire value chain of CCUS.

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