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    1. Energy Transition

    Occidental hires Siemens to provide Permian DAC compression

    March 7, 2023
    Occidental Petroleum Corp. subsidiary 1PointFive will use Siemens Energy compressors at its 500,000-tonne/year direct air capture (DAC) CO2 plant in Texas’ Permian basin.
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    1PointFive will use Siemens Energy compressors at its DAC CO2 plant in Texas.
    1PointFive will use Siemens Energy compressors at its DAC CO2 plant in Texas.

    Occidental Petroleum Corp. subsidiary 1PointFive will use Siemens Energy compressors at its 500,000-tonne/year direct air capture (DAC) CO2 plant in Texas’ Permian basin. Siemens will supply a motor-driven 13,000-hp fully modular wet gas compressor package and a motor-driven 8,500-hp dry gas compressor for the DAC plant.

    The equipment will compress the captured CO2 for additional processing and pressurize the final product into a pipeline for injection into underground reservoirs. Start-up is expected in late 2024.

    1PointFive last year began early site construction on the DAC plant in Ector County, Tex., near Occidental’s Permian acreage. It will be scalable to 1 million tpy if demand warrants (OGJ Online, Aug. 25, 2022).

    In a separate project, 1PointFive last week leased 55,000 acres along the Texas Gulf Coast to develop a 1.2-billion tonne carbon capture and sequestration hub (OGJ Online, Mar. 3, 2023).

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