Tenaska Chooses Fluor’s Econamine FG Plussm Carbon Capture Technology

Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010

Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that Tenaska has chosen Fluor’s Econamine FG Plus^sm carbon capture technology for use at the company’s proposed Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center being developed near Sweetwater, Texas.

“The combination of Fluor’s expertise with the technology and its 20 years of experience in practical applications makes it the best choice for use at Trailblazer.”

“Trailblazer represents an innovative environmental breakthrough in clean energy production that will have positive implications worldwide,” said Dave Dunning, president of Fluor’s Power Group. “We are eager to move forward and begin building this important new energy source for Tenaska and Texas.”

“Fluor’s Econamine FG Plus^sm technology has been licensed at commercial scale in 26 industrial plants worldwide, including three in the United States,” said Michael Lebens, president of Tenaska’s Engineering & Operations Group. “The combination of Fluor’s expertise with the technology and its 20 years of experience in practical applications makes it the best choice for use at Trailblazer.”

Trailblazer will be a pioneering 600-megawatt (net) electricity generating plant fueled by pulverized coal and is expected to be among the first full-scale commercial power plants in the nation, and the first in Texas, to capture 85 to 90 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO₂) byproduct, sending it via pipeline to the Permian Basin to be used in enhanced oil recovery.

Based on the projected rate of capture, the plant will emit significantly less CO₂ than an equivalent capacity natural gas-fueled plant.

Econamine FG Plus^sm is a Fluor proprietary, amine-based technology for large-scale, post-combustion CO₂ capture. The technology is one of the first and among the most widely applied commercial solutions proven in operating environments to remove CO₂ from high oxygen content flue gases.

As the project’s engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, Fluor is also performing Tenaska’s initial design and engineering work for Trailblazer. Arch Coal, Inc. has a 35 percent equity interest in the project and will supply the coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

Source: Business Wire