Operating capture facilities are presented below, including their capture capacity, the technology used and their location. The data was collected and refined from the Global Status of CCS 2024 Report which is based on recorded data as of July 24, 2024. The tool will be updated on an annual basis.
Projects were limited to those with capture capacities greater than 100,000 tonnes per year. The largest operating carbon capture project is the Petrobras Santos Basin Pre-Salt Oil Field, a pre-combustion facility located in Brazil. In the race to reduce global emissions, the following regions are leading the way:
- North America — Capture capacity of 26.51 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) at 21 commercial plants located in the USA and Canada
- South America — Capture capacity of 10.60 Mtpa at one commercial plant
- Asia — Capture capacity of 7.77 Mtpa at 14 commercial plants located in China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
- Australia — Capture capacity of 5.70 Mtpa at two commercial plants in Australia
- Europe — Capture capacity of 1.86 Mtpa at three commercial plants located in Norway and Hungary
International CCS Footprint at a Glance
Operational CCS technologies with the greatest capture capacities to date are pre-combustion and post-combustion, respectively. There are 19 pre-combustion facilities capturing 31.47 Mtpa of CO2 and 13 post-combustion facilities capturing 8.83 Mtpa. In addition, there’s one cryogenic facility, one vacuum swing adsorption facility and one Banfield process facility.
New CO2 capture innovations are also on the rise and there are a few operating Direct Air Capture facilities in the Global CCS Institute database, however they aren’t currently capturing enough CO2 to be included in this map.
Note that the location of the capture facilities presented on the map is not always synonymous with the storage site. For example, carbon capture occurring at the Dakota Gasification Company (USA) is transported 330 kms north via the Souris Valley Pipeline to the Weyburn Unit Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) project for permanent geologic storage in Saskatchewan, Canada. Conversely, if the coordinates of the capture plant are unknown/uncertain, then the carbon storage coordinates may have been substituted in lieu of this missing data (e.g. Petrobras Santos Basin in offshore Brazil is the storage site, not the capture site). Always refer to the Project Name and/or CCS operator websites for more detailed information.
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