Policymakers, partners and investors toured the New Mexico site where Spiritus is advancing technology to produce atmospheric CO₂ for enhanced oil recovery.
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On Monday, October 5, Spiritus cut the ribbon on its pilot facility at the Nambé Pueblo Development Corporation complex, just outside Santa Fe.

Partners, operators and speakers joined the team to tour the site. Guests included Representative Meredith Dixon; the offices of U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján; the Honorable Mary Landrieu and Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future; Secretary Rob Black of the New Mexico Economic Development Department; and the New Mexico State Investment Council.
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From the laboratory to the oil field

The facility builds on materials research that began at Los Alamos National Laboratory and on Spiritus' partnership with the Nambé Pueblo Development Corporation. Visitors saw the capture equipment in operation and a hands-on demonstration of the sorbent at the center of the technology.
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The pilot is a step toward deploying facilities that supply CO₂ where operators need it. Spiritus is developing technology to produce atmospheric CO₂ right on the oil field for enhanced oil recovery, giving producers a new source of supply that does not depend on natural CO₂ deposits, distant industrial emitters or long-distance pipelines.
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Demand is already taking shape

Spiritus' first three letters of intent with U.S. oil and gas operators across the Rockies, Midwest and U.S. Gulf Coast represent more than 3 million tonnes of potential annual CO₂ demand. They are an initial step toward long-term offtake agreements.
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Thank you to the Nambé Pueblo Development Corporation, to everyone who joined us, and to the Spiritus team.
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