Our Goals

The CO₂ Capture Project (CCP) has a clear goal: to help develop next generation technologies that will reduce the costs of CCS and hence help to make CCS a practical and cost effective option for reducing or eliminating CO₂ emissions to the atmosphere resulting from the use of fossil fuels.

To meet this goal, the CCP’s work has been divided into three stages, and Phase Two was completed in late 2009. Work covers four areas 1) Storage, Monitoring and Verification, 2) Capture, 3) Policy and Incentives and 4) Communications. As a result of this work, many of the perceived uncertainties around subsurface storage have been addressed and new, technically viable lower cost capture routes identified, both of which will help to operationalize CCS. CCS adoption at scale is now more a question of clarifying regulations, establishing supportive government policies that make CCS projects commercially viable and gaining public support.

The CCP's areas of focus include:

Driving down the cost of existing CO₂ capture technologies for use by the oil, gas and power generation industries, through further technology R&D as well as demonstrations of next generation technology
Advancing knowledge of well integrity, the performance of well materials and site certification
Adapting subsurface monitoring technologies to track CO₂ underground

Participating Organizations

Industry

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Government Contributors

	U.S. Department of Energy
	Norges forskningsråd
	European Union

Previous Industry Members




ConocoPhillips – Member, Phase Two and Phase Three (July 2009 – December 2011) StatoilHydro - Member, Phase One and Phase Two EnCana - Member, Phase One EPRI – Associate Member, Phase Two and Phase Three (April 2007 – December 2011) Repsol - Associate Member, Phase One, Phase Two