Programme goals

CCP’s clear goal was to help develop next generation technologies that would reduce the costs of CCS and make CCS a practical and cost-effective option for reducing or eliminating CO₂ emissions, resulting from the use of fossil fuels.

To meet this goal, CCP’s work was divided into a series of phases, with work covering 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 and lower cost capture routes identified, both of which will help to operationalize CCS. Further adoption of CCS at scale requires clarifications of regulations, government financial support and policies to make CCS projects commercially viable.

CCP's specific areas of focus to help it achieve its goal included:

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
Informing the development of legal and policy frameworks

Participating Organizations

Industry (CCP Phase 4)

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Government Contributors

	U.S. Department of Energy
	Norges forskningsråd
	European Union

Previous Industry Members





eni – Member, Phase One, Phase Two and Phase Three Shell – Member, Phase One, Phase Two and Phase Three ConocoPhillips – Member, Phase Two and Phase Three StatoilHydro - Member, Phase One and Phase Two EnCana - Member, Phase One EPRI – Associate Member, Phase Two and Phase Three Repsol - Associate Member, Phase One, Phase Two