Indonesia and Malaysia strengthen CCS/CCUS rules to attract investment

As Southeast Asia accelerates its energy transition, CCS/CCUS is becoming an important solution for reducing emissions, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors. A new policy brief from the ASEAN Centre for Energy examines how Indonesia and Malaysia are developing regulatory frameworks aimed at attracting investment while safeguarding environmental integrity. Both countries have made significant progress and are […]

Insights from S&P Global on CCUS in 2026

Recent analysis from S&P Global highlights a turning point for CCUS. The sector is moving beyond early-stage ambition into a more mature, execution-focused phase as the energy transition evolves. Key insights: Market is maturing: Global carbon capture capacity has reached around 73 million metric tonnes per year, with nearly 1,300 projects in development, signaling strong […]

RaboResearch insights: Europe’s CCUS landscape and the path to scale

RaboResearch has released a two-part analysis of CCUS in Europe, providing a snapshot of technological, economic and policy factors shaping the sector. Their research underscores both the promise of CCUS as a climate solution and the significant hurdles still to overcome. 1. CCUS: Critical for hard-to-abate sectors CCUS is essential to decarbonise industrial sectors such […]

Report from CCUS Norway: Connecting the Dots between CO2 Supply and Storage

Norway knows where its CO2 comes from and where it can be stored. But how do we connect the dots? A new report from CCUS Norway dives into the challenge of transporting CO2 from scattered, small industrial sources to permanent storage sites. CCUS Norway, with support from CLIMIT, has mapped these challenges together with partners […]

Can we achieve gigatonne scale CO2 storage by mid-century?

Yuting Zhang, Christopher Jackson and Samuel Krevor, researchers from Imperial College London, explore the feasibility of achieving gigatonne-scale CO2 storage by mid-century. In their paper The feasibility of reaching gigatonne scale CO2 storage by mid-century, published in Nature Communications (2024), they apply a logistics model to assess global CO2 storage potential, proposing a feasible benchmark for […]

Geoenergy introduces new Thematic Collection: CCS in the Asia–Pacific region

Momentum is building in the Asia–Pacific (APAC) region for increased decarbonisation spurred by government policy development and cross-border industrial partnerships. Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia for example are progressing the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Hub concept where carbon dioxide can be imported from countries with less suitable geology for CCS such as Japan, Korea and […]

Accelerating the energy transition using emerging geoscience skills

How can we speed up the energy transition as part of our response to the climate change challenge? The essential tools for enabling rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are well known, but implementing these vectors of decarbonisation is challenging, partly for economic reasons and partly due to social resistance. Philip Ringrose (Norwegian University of […]