Chevron-led Bayou Bend CCS JV selects Worley for infrastructure design, evaluation

Chevron-led Bayou Bend CCS LLC has selected Worley to design and evaluate CO₂ gathering, handling, and sequestration infrastructure for the Bayou Bend joint venture sited along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas (OGJ Online, Mar. 6, 2023).

The project includes a CO₂ storage footprint of nearly 140,000 acres of pore space and is the first offshore stratigraphic well for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in US state waters.

The Gulf Coast has one of the heaviest concentrations of CO₂ emissions in the US, making this project pivotal in enabling hard-to-abate industries, such as refining, cement, steel, chemicals, and manufacturing, to meet their climate goals.

Bayou Bend is a joint venture of Chevron USA Inc., through its Chevron New Energies division (50%), Talos Energy Inc., through its Talos Low Carbon Solutions division (25%), and Equinor AS (25%). Chevron became operator of the LLC effective Mar. 1, 2023.