The Co2 Capture Project: 20 Years of Innovation

The CO2 Capture Project (CCP) is a unique collaborative technology development program initiated in 2000 with participants from corporations, academia, governments, research institutions, policy makers and individual contractors who came together to advance development of new approaches to capture and store CO2 and improve efficiencies of existing technologies. The overall objectives have been to deliver major cost reductions for carbon capture and demonstrate that geological storage is safe, measurable, and verifiable. Since 2000, the CCP partners and cost-sharing governments have invested over $90 million to support a wide-ranging portfolio of projects to advance the understanding and development of capture and storage technologies, the economic analysis of the cost base of CCS together with analysis of regulatory and policy frameworks and a dedicated communications programme with key stakeholders. In this paper, we reflect upon the highlights and lessons learnt from twenty years of investment in technology development and the implications for the future deployment of CCS.