ExxonMobil carbon capture project reviewed [Video]

A massive southeast Montana carbon sequestration project, 14 years in making, is under environmental review by the Bureau of Land Management.

ExxonMobil’s “Snowy River Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Project?” would span 110,000 subsurface acres between Ekalaka and the Montana-Wyoming border. There, over 20 years, the company would pump an estimated 150 million tons of carbon dioxide from unidentified sources into a rock formation more than a mile beneath the surface.

BLM is accepting public comment on Snowy River through March 18.

The area has been eyed for carbon dioxide storage since at least 2010 when storage in the nearby Belle Creek area was developed to accept carbon dioxide from the Lost Cabin and Shute Creek gas processing facilities in Wyoming. That project, like Snowy River was developed by Denbury Onshore, which was purchased for $4.9 billion by ExxonMobil in the second half of 2023.

Shute Creek is an Exxon property long …