Decarbonisation & CCS

Successful ‘Decarbonisation’, the process of reducing or eliminating carbon dioxide emissions from various sectors and industries, creates energy transition pathways which contribute to the acceleration to Net Zero. Carbon capture and Storage (CCS) are a set of technologies and processes designed to capture, transport and store emissions.

CCS technologies have been in operation for many years and are known to be effective. Capture technologies themselves are varied and costly but vital to the reduction of emissions in ‘hard-to-abate’ industries such as cement production. Storage technologies have high technical readiness and many projects are being developed.

CCS projects are large scale, varied in type from saline acquifers, depleted gas fields and mineralised carbon storage and will operate for long periods of time. Understanding the long term and through-life risks, including geological and subsurface risks, is vital and a service which RMRI provides and undertakes.