Chevron wants to store carbon dioxide beneath South Mississippi. Here's how it would work.

Chevron says it’s starting to build a system that will collect carbon dioxide at its Pascagoula refinery, send it through a pipeline to a spot north of Vancleave, and store it deep underground forever.

This is something rare for South Mississippi and for the world.

Only about 45 commercial carbon capture facilities are operating globally, with 19 of them in the United States. Another 132 are in advanced development.

A one page website fact sheet gives the basics about carbon capture and how Chevron is taking steps to protect people and the environment as it looks at site selection, design, development and operations of the Pascagoula Refinery Carbon Capture and Storage project in South Mississippi.

It doesn’t answer people’s questions about how the carbon dioxide will get from Pascag