Baker Hughes selected for carbon capture project

Baker Hughes has signed a long-term agreement with fertilizer company Wabash Valley Resources (WVR) to supply advanced technology services and solutions to support WVR’s ammonia production with compression systems, injection well construction and perform testing and monitoring services for the geological sequestration of carbon dioxide.

Wabash Valley Resources’ clean ammonia fertilizer project will repower and repurpose an existing gasification plant, becoming Indiana’s first ammonia fertilizer plant. It will serve the Corn Belt and agricultural community by creating a sustainable, reliable supply of domestic, lower cost fertilizer produced through a zero-carbon-capable process while capturing 1.65 million tons of CO2 per year.

WVR selected Baker Hughes as its provider of compression and CCS-related technology, services, and solutions for low-carbon ammonia fertilizer production facilities. (Image: Wabash Valley Resources)

“We are excited for this milestone with Wabash Valley Resources to advance geological carbon capture and storage technology in the United States,” said Judit Prieto, senior vice president for Enterprise Customer Solutions at Baker Hughes. “This agreement underscores Baker Hughes’ strategic commitment to new energy ventures that leverage our technical excellence and safety standards through decades of experience.”

In January 2024, WVR received two Class VI permits from the U.S. EPA to construct CO2 injection wells in Indiana. These are the first Class VI permits issued by the EPA since 2014 and the first in a new wave of over 100 well applications pending before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Baker Hughes’s portfolio of CCUS solutions, technologies, and services includes pre-FEED and FEED consultation; project design; capture and purification; fit-for-purpose CO2 compression technology; well design and construction for storage, carbon transportation and injection; and monitoring and site stewardship. Baker Hughes expects orders, in relation to this agreement, upon successful project sanction.