The Heartland Greenway carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) pipeline, a 1,300-mile system that would traverse five Midwestern states, has snagged a top Iowa fertilizer company as a customer, according to Navigator CO2 Ventures LLC.

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Under the agreement with Dutch fertilizer giant OCI NV, Navigator would transport and sequester up to 1.13 million metric tons/year (mmty) of carbon dioxide (CO2) for the Iowa Fertilizer Co. (IFCo) unit. 

Heartland, sanctioned in October, would transport and sequester up to 15 mmty from industrial customers in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota.

“OCI is a global leader in the ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer industries — an important component of agriculture — and forward thinking in their plans for decarbonization,”...