Proud to have played our part in this important initiative. New data from the London Register of Subsurface CO₂ Storage shows 383 million tonnes of CO₂ stored since 1996 - equal to 81 million cars taken off the road for a year. A powerful reminder of the vital role CCS plays in global decarbonisation, and of the many projects worldwide driving this progress forward. Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Global CCS Institute Carbon Capture and Storage Association IEAGHG CSIRO Royal Academy of Engineering
Today we launch the London Register of Subsurface CO2 Storage The Register is a publicly available scientific record of the amounts of CO2 stored underground by projects globally. In this initial publication we report data inclusive of the period 1996 – 2024. We publish a detailed database with information about individual projects and the sources of the data, and an Annual Report summarising the data and the independent assurance evaluation of the data gathering process provided by DNV on the Register website at: https://lnkd.in/eDnb5TmK Here are some of the key findings: · The Register shows that over 384 million tonnes of CO₂ has been stored underground worldwide since 1996 and the current growth trajectory is on track to exceed a total of 1 gigatonne stored underground by 2030. · In 2023, the most recent year with complete reporting, over 45 million tonnes of CO2 were stored underground. This is a large amount of storage and is equivalent to the CO2 emissions avoided by between 50 - 150 TWh of renewable energy production, more renewable energy than was produced by most countries around the world in the same year, including the United Kingdom. · The Register shows that CO2 storage is happening at industrial scales around the world, with commercial projects in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and China. This shows that deployment occurs in a wide variety of geographical, geological, jurisdictional, and policy settings. · This data highlights that carbon capture and storage, and the type of geological storage that will be needed for CO2 removal from the atmosphere, is not a concept for the future, but a proven, scalable technology operating effectively today. · These findings provide visibility to the very hopeful message that we have the technologies needed to solve climate change, that CO₂ storage is happening today around the world, and that it is well placed to make its contribution to large-scale climate change mitigation Congratulations to our Exec. Director Xiaowei Gao, PhD and Project Manager Anjanette Harry Many thanks to the consortium: Sally Benson Stanford University Nicola Clarke, Tim Dixon IEAGHG Jarad Daniels Global CCS Institute Sarah Gasda NORCE Research Pete Golding OGCI (Oil and Gas Climate Initiative) Beth Hebditch Carbon Capture and Storage Association Samuel Jackson Andrew Ross CSIRO Ruben Juanes Massachusetts Institute of Technology John MacArthur Royal Academy of Engineering Rachael Moore, PhD CarbStrat Erik Nickel PTRC Sustainable Energy Candice Patton Enhance Energy Inc. Philip Ringrose Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Ruina Xu Tsinghua University Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College Imperial College London Global CCS Institute IEAGHG CCSA OGCI (Oil and Gas Climate Initiative)
