Hafslund Celsio announces the sale of 1.1 million tonnes of permanent carbon removals to Microsoft over a 10-year period. The agreement is a significant contribution to the commercial success of Hafslund Celsio’s full-scale CCS project in Oslo and is a recognition of the waste-to-energy sector as a credible provider of permanent carbon removals.
Bayou Bend, a joint venture between Chevron, Equinor, and TotalEnergies SE, is a carbon dioxide (CO₂) transportation and storage project in Southeast Texas. It’s designed to support key regional industries in reducing the carbon intensity of their operations. The goal is for Bayou Bend to serve as a central hub for CO₂ storage in the area.
The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation has successfully completed the world’s first maritime pilot demonstrating the full value chain of onboard captured carbon dioxide in China on 25 June 2025. This cross-sectoral demonstration highlights how captured CO2 from ships can be repurposed for industrial applications, linking maritime decarbonisation efforts with broader land-based carbon ecosystem.
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, announced that it has been awarded an £833 million contract by Technip Energies to act as the construction partner for Net Zero Teesside Power – an Onshore Power, Capture and Compression project and poised to be the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage.
Alberta’s government is investing $5 million from the industry-led TIER fund to help Deep Sky design, build and operate the world’s first direct air capture innovation and commercialization centre in Innisfail.
Entropy Inc., a subsidiary of Advantage Energy Ltd., has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase an interest in three carbon hubs from a Canadian oil and natural gas producer for $20 million and contingent payments of approximately $15 million (subject to adjustment) based on commercial milestones achieved by various projects .
Heidelberg Materials has officially inaugurated Brevik CCS in Norway, the world’s first industrial-scale carbon capture, and storage (CCS) facility in the cement industry. Brevik CCS will capture around 400,000 tons of CO₂ per year, representing 50% of the plant’s emissions – and equivalent to the amount of CO₂ emissions per passenger for roughly 150,000 round-trip flights between Frankfurt and New York.
Seatrium Limited announced the signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) with long-term strategic Favoured Customer Contract partner Solvang ASA, Norway, for installation and retrofitting of full-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) systems. The milestone LOI was formalized during Nor-Shipping 2025 in Oslo, reinforcing the companies’ shared commitment to sustainable maritime solutions.
PETRONAS CCS Ventures, MISC Berhad (MISC), and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) today announced the incorporation of a strategic joint venture. This joint venture will lead the development and act as the ultimate owner of Liquefied Carbon Dioxide (LCO₂) carriers, which are critical for transporting LCO₂ to designated storage sites.
Global energy technology company SLB launched Sequestri™ carbon storage solutions — a comprehensive portfolio of technologies and services for accelerating safer and more economic carbon storage projects. The Sequestri portfolio addresses the unique challenges of long-term carbon storage, providing tailored hardware and digital workflows that improve decision-making across the full carbon storage value chain.
Backed by an EU Connecting Europe Facility Grant, the project will deliver world-scale CO₂ reception infrastructure and unlock economies of scale for Denmark and the European Union.
Eni has signed an agreement to enter into a period of exclusivity with Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) aimed at progressing the confirmatory due diligence phase and completing the drafting of the documents related to the sale of a co-control stake of 49.99% in Eni CCUS Holding.
Worley Consulting has been chosen to continue delivering Lender’s Technical Advisor services for the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) and Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power). NEP is the CO2 transportation and storage provider to carbon capture projects across Teesside and the Humber in North-East England, while NZT Power aims to become the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage.
INEOS Energy and Royal Wagenborg launched and named the first European built offshore CO2 carrier to enable carbon capture storage across Europe. The launch and naming of Carbon Destroyer 1 marks a defining moment in the development of Project Greensand and the EU’s first commercial -scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) value chain.
BKV Corporation announced the formation of a strategic joint venture between BKV dCarbon Ventures, LLC, BKV’s wholly-owned subsidiary, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, on behalf of its Energy Transition Fund I, to expand BKV’s portfolio of carbon capture, utilization and sequestration projects.
Marking a major milestone in the development of commercial-scale geological storage of CO2 in Europe to combat climate change, Carbfix has on 30 April received a storage permit for its injection site at Hellisheiði, Iceland, from the Environment and Energy Agency of Iceland.
A deal has been signed to boost emission reduction projects at Calcinor's lime plants, which could cut emissions by around 900,000 tons of CO2 per year, plus the development of a logistics chain for capturing, transporting, liquefying, storing, and loading the CO2 onto vessels for subsequent use or permanent storage.
As the CCUS industry faces ongoing uncertainty, with economic challenges and evolving regulatory landscapes, one thing remains clear: The drive for scalable decarbonization is unwavering.
In the face of economic uncertainty, diversifying carbon capture technology will help keep Canada’s industry competitive globally. Expanding the range of carbon capture, utilization and storage options available to companies will increase adoption and reduce the cost of this essential technology.
Halliburton tests acoustic-based injectivity monitoring at the perforation scale to characterize supercritical fluid injection into permeable rock formations at reservoir conditions
The journey to full-scale carbon capture in the United States follows safe pipelines.
In a bold step toward strengthening the science behind permanent carbon sequestration, MicroSeismic, Inc.’s advanced subsurface imaging and monitoring technology, branded as CO2SeQure®, has been deployed at an active CCS project.
United Living Group announced that its subsidiary, United Living Energy Limited, has been selected by Liverpool Bay CCS Limited, a member of the global energy-tech company, Eni, as one of the primary contractors to deliver CO2 Transportation and Storage infrastructure. The ULIS project is worth approximately £250 million over a three-year period.
Eni announced that it has reached financial close with the UK Government’s Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) for the Liverpool Bay CCS project, where Eni is the operator of the CO2 transport and storage system (T&S) of the HyNet industrial Cluster.
Exxon Mobil Corporation announced an agreement with Calpine Corporation to transport and permanently store up to 2 million metric tons per annum of CO2 from Calpine’s Baytown Energy Center, a cogeneration facility near Houston.
RepAir Carbon US Inc., developer of a uniquely energy-efficient Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology, and C-Questra, an independent European carbon storage startup, announced a strategic partnership to develop the European Union's first onshore Direct Air Capture and Storage (DACS) project in France.
U.S. Energy Corporation announced the closing of a strategic acquisition from a privately held company for $0.2 million, strengthening its industrial gas and carbon capture platform in Montana. As part of the Acquisition, U.S. Energy acquired approximately 2,300 net acres with carbon dioxide rights that are highly contiguous to its existing position across Montana’s Kevin Dome structure.
AtmosClear BR, LLC, a portfolio company of Fidelis, announced that it has signed a contract with Microsoft for 6.75 million metric tons of engineered carbon removal over 15 years from bioenergy carbon capture & storage ("BECCS"). The deal is the world's largest for permanent carbon removal to date.
The Viking CCS Pipeline application has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. The project comprises a new 55 km onshore underground pipeline from the point of receipt of dense phase CO2 at Immingham.
Occidental and its subsidiary 1PointFive announced that the U.S Environmental Protection Agency approved its Class VI permits to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from STRATOS when the world’s largest Direct Air Capture (DAC) facility begins operating in Ector County, Texas.
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