Aiming to lead the carbon capture and storage industry in Southeast Texas
Safely reducing emissions through permanent carbon sequestration
Executing with excellence: providing project planning, construction and operations
What is Bayou Bend?
Bayou Bend is a joint venture owned by Chevron, TotalEnergies and Equinor to develop a carbon capture and storage facility in Southeast Texas. The project is the first offshore stratigraphic well for carbon capture and storage in U.S. state waters and has the potential to reduce emissions from regional industrial facilities by sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) safely and permanently underground.
A safe, proven, permanent solution to reducing CO₂ emissions
What is carbon capture & storage?
CCS is a technology where CO2 emissions are captured and stored safely underground, limiting its effects on the environment. Once the CO2 is captured, it will be transported to a storage site where it will be injected and permanently stored more than a mile underground.
Experts see carbon capture and storage (CCS) as an essential tool in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and working toward the Paris Agreement goals.
Permanent storage
CO2 will be sequestered more than a mile underground and held in place by thick, impermeable rocks deep under the surface.
The expanded Bayou Bend project has nearly 140,000 acres of pore space for permanent CO2 sequestration.
Safe operations
Carbon capture and storage is a known technology that has been used for over 40 years. There are more than 5,000 miles of CO2 pipelines throughout the United States that have been in operation for nearly 50 years.
Community benefits
Bayou Bend could benefit communities in southeast Texas by reducing GHG emissions in the region; protecting, sustaining and growing industry jobs; growing tax revenue from industry; and benefitting the Texas Permanent School Fund to fund Texas public schools.
Meet the Partners
Bayou Bend is a joint venture owned by Chevron, TotalEnergies and Equinor with the goal of developing a carbon capture and storage facility in Southeast Texas. Working together, we are leveraging our expertise, investments and global reach to advance CCS technologies. Bayou Bend will store CO₂ from industrial sources in the Houston Ship Channel and the Beaumont/Port Arthur areas to support local, regional and national lower carbon aspirations.
Providing energy that drives human progress
Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. We believe affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy is essential to enabling human progress. Chevron is the operator of the Bayou Bend LLC.
Transforming Ourselves to Reinvent Energy
TotalEnergies is a global integrated energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity. Active in about 120 countries, TotalEnergies places sustainability at the heart of its strategy, its projects and its operations.
Turning natural resources into energy for people and progress for society
Equinor is an international energy company committed to long-term value creation in a low-carbon future. With a broad portfolio that encompasses oil and gas, renewables, and low carbon solutions, we aim to be a leading company in the energy transition.
Carbon storage beginning later this decade
Project planning, permitting and engagement for Bayou Bend is underway. Explore significant milestones on our journey to geologic storage below.
August 2021
A joint venture that became known as Bayou Bend LLC was the winning bidder for the Texas General Land Office (GLO) Jefferson County, Texas, carbon storage lease, located offshore Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas. The lease encompasses more than 40,000 gross acres, and is the first offshore lease in the U.S. dedicated to CO₂ storage.
March 2022
Bayou Bend CCS LLC executed lease documentation with the GLO, establishing the first ever major offshore carbon sequestration site in the United States.
May 2022
Chevron joined the joint venture, which was expanded to develop the Bayou Bend CCS offshore carbon capture and sequestration hub.
March 2023
Nearly 100,000 acres acquired onshore in Chambers and Jefferson Counties, Texas. The increased acreage positions Bayou Bend to be one of the largest carbon storage projects in the United States.
August 2023
International energy company Equinor acquired Carbonvert's 25% ownership stake in Bayou Bend, bringing additional expertise and resources to the project alongside Chevron and Talos Energy.
