The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has put into operation China’s first offshore large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, located in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, 200 km southwest of Shenzhen (southern China). The project is designed to store a total of more than 1.5 MtCO2 in total and 300 ktCO2/year can be injected in the storage. The project, which serves the Enping 15-1 oil platform, captures and processes CO2 from oilfields and then injects it into a geological structure located at a depth of around 800 meters. On the basis of this project, CNOOC has launched a 10 MtCO2 CCS cluster project in Huizhou, (Guangdong Province), which will capture CO2 emitted in Daya Bay and ship it to the Pearl River Mouth Basin sea area for storage.
In addition, China Energy Investment Corporation (China Energy) has announced that it has put Asia's largest carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) facility for the coal-fired power generation sector into operation in the Jiangsu Province (eastern China). The facility, attached to a generation unit at China Energy's Taizhou coal-fired power plant, will capture 500 ktCO2/year.
In 2022, the state-owned oil and gas company Sinopec also launched a 712 kt/year CCUS project at one of its oil refineries in Shandong province. China is currently multiplying its CCS projects as it plans to peak its carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.