Wabash Valley Resources LLC (WVR) has signed an agreement with Baker Hughes to provide support for carbon sequestration efforts related to its anhydrous ammonia fertilizer operation in West Terre Haute, Indiana. WVR is in the process of retrofitting a former Duke Energy plant to produce the fertilizer. Baker Hughes will provide compression systems, injection well construction, and testing and monitoring services for the process of storing carbon dioxide from the plant in two underground wells in Vermillion and Vigo counties.
WVR is investing US$900 million to retrofit the former Duke plant, which is currently being used to produce hydrogen syngas. When the project is complete in 2026, the company expects to produce about 500,000 metric tons of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer each year, supporting farmers in the Eastern Corn Belt, which covers most of central Indiana and western Ohio, and part of southern Michigan.
In January, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued two permits allowing Wabash Valley Resources LLC to begin construction on the underground wells. The company expects about 1.67 million metric tons of CO2 could be injected into the wells each year over a 12-year period.
