Vaulted Deep, a biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS) carbon dioxide removal (CDR) company, announced that it has delivered the first batch of tonnes in its offtake agreement with Frontier, kickstarting Vaulted’s monthly, third-party verified deliveries. Vaulted has rapidly deployed high-quality CDR since the company’s launch in September 2023, marking a total of over 5,000 tonnes removed overall.
In May 2024, Frontier announced that it had facilitated a $58.3 million offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep to permanently remove 152,480 tonnes of CO₂ between 2024 and 2027. This marks the first delivery of the multi-year agreement.
Spun out of industrial waste management company, Advantek Waste Management Services, Vaulted intercepts a wide range of sludgy, carbon-rich, organic wastes – biosolids, agricultural and livestock waste, and paper mill sludge – permanently locking them underground before the carbon can be re-released into the atmosphere. Frontier buyers were Vaulted’s first customers in September 2023 through a small prepurchase of 1,666 tons—all of which have already been 3rd party audited and delivered.
Vaulted launched with access to two permitted operational injection sites in Los Angeles County and Hutchinson, Kansas, making rapid, permanent CDR deployment possible. The company is set to commission new wells which are to be sited at locations to optimize feedstock availability, transportation, and well capacity. Vaulted’s approach starts with vegetation naturally drawing down CO₂ from the atmosphere via photosynthesis. Much of that ends up as carbon-rich waste in the form of biosolids, manure, food or agricultural waste that is incinerated, landfilled, or spread on land. As that waste burns or decomposes, the once-captured CO₂ is released back into the atmosphere. Vaulted prevents that from happening by turning that waste into a carbon-rich slurry and then injecting it into deep disposal wells for permanent geologic storage.
Courtesy of Vaulted Deep.