Carbon Capture Timeline 1972-2026: CCS, DAC and CO2 Storage

Carbon capture is a set of technologies that capture CO2 before or after it enters the atmosphere. CCS captures CO2 from concentrated industrial sources and st…

CO2 Injection Begins in Texas Oil Fields

Gas-processing plants in West Texas began separating CO2 from natural gas and piping it into ageing oil fields to push out more crude, a practice called enhanced oil rec…

Norway Starts Storing CO2 Under the North Sea

Gas from the Sleipner field held too much CO2 to sell, so operator Statoil, now Equinor, separated it and injected roughly a million tonnes a year into the Utsira saline…

The IPCC Puts CCS on the Climate Map

The IPCC published a dedicated special report assessing capture methods, pipeline safety, storage security and cost. It concluded that well-chosen, monitored geological…

First Commercial CCS on a Coal Power Plant

SaskPower retrofitted Unit 3 of its Boundary Dam coal station with post-combustion capture designed for about 1 million tonnes of CO2 a year, most sold for enhanced oil…

Direct Air Capture Becomes Commercial

Swiss company Climeworks opened what it billed as the first commercial direct air capture plant, pulling CO2 from ambient air and selling it to a nearby greenhouse. Late…

Big Subsidies Arrive, India Publishes Its First CCUS Policy

The US Inflation Reduction Act raised the 45Q tax credit to as much as 85 dollars per tonne for stored industrial CO2 and 180 dollars for direct air capture, triggering…

Porthos Begins Construction Under the North Sea

Porthos, a Dutch state-backed joint venture, started building a shared CO2 pipeline and offshore injection system for about 2.5 million tonnes a year from Air Liquide, A…

Northern Lights Stores Its First CO2

The Northern Lights joint venture, part of Norway's Longship programme, received its first CO2 by ship from a cement plant at Brevik and injected it about 2,600 m below…

Europe's Largest Carbon-Capture Facility Opens

Fertiliser maker Yara inaugurated what Reuters called Europe's largest industrial carbon-capture facility at its Sluiskil ammonia plant. It will capture and liquefy up t…

Can CCS Scale Enough to Matter?

On today's pipeline the IEA sees capture capacity possibly reaching around 430 million tonnes a year by 2030 if everything announced is built, against roughly 50 million…