China launches first megaton-class offshore carbon storage project

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FILE: Guangdong Province, south China – Exact Date Unknown (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
1. Aerial shots of cityscape, plants
2. Various of models of CCUS project
3. Machines
4. Aerial shots of plants, offshore oil rigs, energy station

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China has officially launched its first megaton-class offshore carbon capture and storage project.

A signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding for a new project combing carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) was held in south China’s Guangdong Province on Tuesday, marking the launch of the country’s first CCUS cluster project.

At the signing ceremony in Guangdong Dayawan Industrial Park, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Shell (China) and ExxonMobil, agreed to join forces to pursue the development of the project that is considered as one of the world’s leading.

CCUS, or carbon capture and storage (CCS), is a set of technologies used to strip carbon dioxide from industrial waste gases or directly from the atmosphere.

The Dayawan Industrial Park is home to over 40 petrochemical enterprises and one of the seven major petrochemical bases in China with relatively concentrated carbon emission sources. This project could help the enterprises reduce their carbon footprint and advance the progress to carbon neutrality

As schemed, the project will use capture devices to collect the carbon dioxide emitted by enterprises in the park, compress it, and transport it to the nearby sea area through pipelines for storage or geological utilization.

According to preliminary calculations, the sea area near the Pearl River Estuary can provide good conditions for carbon dioxide sequestration, with an storage capacity of over 100 billion tons. The area is expected to support the development of CCUS industrial clusters in Dayawan and other coastal areas in Guangdong.