CNOOC starts up CCS demonstration project offshore China
June 1, 2023
CNOOC has officially commissioned China's first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, 190 km southwest of Hong Kong.
HONG KONG— CNOOC has officially commissioned China's first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, 190 km southwest of Hong Kong.
The CCS project is related to the Enping 15-1 oilfield development, which is in an average water depth of about 80 m with a high CO2 content.
The CCS module captures and processes CO2 produced from the oil field and injects it into the saline water layer about 800 m beneath the seabed. Storage capacity is more than 1.5 MM t of CO2.
CNOOC said it now has full capabilities in technology and equipment for the capturing, processing, injection, sequestration and monitoring of CO2 at offshore oil and gas fields.
CEO Zhou Xinhuai said the company would “continue to gear up its R&D activities to promote the green development of offshore oil fields and explore offshore storage of onshore carbon to provide a new solution of carbon reduction for the high-emitting enterprises in the coastal areas."
