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Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS): Global Market 2027-2047

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  • 713 Pages
  • June 2026
  • Region: Global
  • Future Markets, Inc
  • ID: 6248815
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) is a suite of technologies that capture carbon dioxide from industrial point sources or directly from the atmosphere, then either store it permanently underground or convert it into commercially valuable products. Applied to a conventional power plant, carbon capture systems can reduce CO₂ emissions by roughly 80-90% compared to an uncontrolled facility. The full chain consists of three stages: capturing the carbon dioxide, transporting it, and either storing it in geological formations - such as depleted oil and gas fields or deep saline aquifers - or utilizing it.

CO₂ is already a globally traded commodity, with around 230 million tonnes consumed each year. The fertilizer industry is the largest consumer, using roughly 130 Mt for urea manufacturing, followed by the oil and gas sector, which uses 70-80 Mt for enhanced oil recovery. Other established applications include food and beverage production, metal fabrication, cooling, fire suppression, and stimulating plant growth in greenhouses. While most commercial use today involves the direct application of CO₂, emerging pathways are transforming it into synthetic fuels, chemicals, polymers, and building materials - often by reacting it with minerals or industrial waste streams such as iron slag to form stable carbonates.

The CCUS business model centers on reducing greenhouse gas emissions while creating economic value from captured carbon. Operators capture CO₂ from emitters or the air, transport it, and store or utilize it. Revenue streams arise from carbon credits, the sale of captured CO₂, enhanced oil recovery, and government incentives such as the US 45Q tax credit. The cost structure is dominated by substantial capital expenditure on infrastructure, ongoing operational costs, and continued R&D investment. Competitive advantage typically derives from proprietary capture technologies, strategic partnerships across the value chain, and economies of scale achieved through shared hubs and clusters.

The regulatory environment is the decisive factor shaping market growth. Carbon pricing mechanisms - including the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, compliance markets in the US and China, and voluntary carbon markets - alongside emissions-reduction mandates determine project viability. Key barriers remain high capture costs, transport and storage infrastructure gaps, regulatory uncertainty, and long-term liability for stored CO₂. Despite these challenges, CCUS is increasingly viewed as indispensable for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors such as cement, steel, chemicals, and blue hydrogen, where few alternative pathways exist.

This comprehensive market report provides an in-depth analysis of the global CCUS industry across a twenty-year forecast horizon. It examines the entire value chain - capture, transport, utilization, and storage - and delivers granular market forecasts segmented by capture type, CO₂ endpoint, source sector, and region. The report covers the full technology landscape, from mature post-combustion chemical absorption through to emerging direct air capture (DAC), electrochemical conversion, and enhanced mineralization. It analyzes the economics of CCUS projects, CAPEX and OPEX reduction strategies, carbon pricing regimes, business models, and the policy environment across North America, Europe, and Asia. The report also assesses utilization pathways - fuels, chemicals, building materials, biological yield-boosting, and enhanced oil recovery - alongside detailed storage and transportation analysis. It concludes with profiles of nearly 400 companies operating across the value chain.

Key content areas include:

  • Executive summary covering main CO₂ emission sources, CO₂ as a commodity, climate targets, market drivers and trends, industry developments 2020-2025, VC funding, and government initiatives.
  • Market forecasts for capture capacity by endpoint and region to 2047, revenue potential, capacity by capture type, point-source capacity by source sector, and cost projections 2025-2047.
  • Carbon capture technologies including post-combustion, pre-combustion, oxy-fuel combustion, technology readiness levels, energy consumption, and capture costs.
  • Sector deep-dives into blue hydrogen, cement, steel, power generation, and BECCS.
  • Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies, plants and projects, capacity forecasts, costs, and market prospects.
  • Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) covering BECCS, mineralization, enhanced weathering, afforestation, biochar, soil carbon sequestration, and ocean-based CDR.
  • Carbon dioxide utilization pathways, conversion processes, and forecasts for fuels, chemicals, construction materials, and biological applications.
  • Carbon dioxide storage site types, capacity estimates, monitoring technologies, CO₂-EOR, and storage projects.
  • Carbon dioxide transportation by pipeline, ship, rail, and truck, plus smart pipeline networks and hubs.
  • Carbon pricing and business models including 45Q tax credits, the EU ETS, and voluntary carbon markets.
  • Nearly 400 detailed company profiles spanning capture, utilization, storage, and transportation.

Table of Contents

1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 Main sources of carbon dioxide emissions
1.2 CO2 as a commodity
1.3 Meeting climate targets
1.4 Market drivers and trends
1.5 The current market and future outlook
1.6 CCUS investments
1.6.1 Venture Capital Funding
1.6.1.1 2010-2026
1.6.1.2 CCUS VC deals 2022-2026
1.7 Government CCUS initiatives and policy environment
1.8 Market map
1.9 Commercial CCUS facilities and projects
1.9.1 Facilities
1.9.1.1 Operational
1.9.1.2 Under development/construction
1.10 Economics of CCUS projects
1.10.1 CAPEX Reduction Strategies
1.10.2 OPEX Reduction Approaches
1.10.3 Emerging Technology Solutions
1.11 CCUS Value Chain
1.12 Key market barriers for CCUS
1.13 CCUS and the energy trilemma
1.14 Growth markets for CUS
1.15 Carbon pricing
1.15.1 Compliance Carbon Pricing Mechanisms
1.15.2 Alternative to Carbon Pricing: 45Q Tax Credits
1.15.3 Business models
1.15.3.1 Full chain
1.15.3.2 Networks and hub model
1.15.3.3 Partial-chain
1.15.3.4 Carbon dioxide utilization business model
1.15.4 The European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS)
1.15.5 Carbon Pricing in the US
1.15.6 Carbon Pricing in China
1.15.7 Voluntary Carbon Markets
1.15.8 Challenges with Carbon Pricing
1.16 Global market forecasts
1.16.1 CCUS capture capacity forecast by end point
1.16.2 Capture capacity by region to 2047, Mtpa
1.16.3 Revenues
1.16.4 CCUS capacity forecast by capture type
1.16.5 Cost projections 2025-2047
2 INTRODUCTION
2.1 What is CCUS?
2.1.1 Carbon Capture
2.1.1.1 Source Characterization
2.1.1.2 Purification
2.1.1.3 CO2 capture technologies
2.1.2 Carbon Utilization
2.1.2.1 CO2 utilization pathways
2.1.3 Carbon storage
2.1.3.1 Passive storage
2.1.3.2 Enhanced oil recovery
2.2 Transporting CO2
2.2.1 Methods of CO2 transport
2.2.1.1 Pipeline
2.2.1.2 Ship
2.2.1.3 Road
2.2.1.4 Rail
2.2.2 Safety
2.3 Costs
2.3.1 Cost of CO2 transport
2.4 Carbon credits
2.5 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of CCUS Technologies
2.6 Environmental Impact Assessment
2.7 Social acceptance and public perception
2.8 Fate of CO2
3 CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE
3.1 Historical CO2 capture
3.2 CO2 capture technologies
3.3 Maturity of technologies
3.4 Technology selection
3.5 Capture Percentages
3.5.1 >90% capture rate
3.5.2 99% capture rate
3.6 CO2 capture agent performance
3.7 Energy Consumption
3.8 TRL
3.9 Global Pipeline of Carbon Capture Facilities-Current and PLanned
3.10 CO2 capture from point sources
3.10.1 Energy Availability and Costs
3.10.2 Power plants with CCUS
3.10.3 Transportation
3.10.4 Global point source CO2 capture capacities
3.10.5 Blue hydrogen
3.10.5.1 Steam-methane reforming (SMR)
3.10.5.2 Autothermal reforming (ATR)
3.10.5.3 Partial oxidation (POX)
3.10.5.4 Sorption Enhanced Steam Methane Reforming (SE-SMR)
3.10.5.5 Pre-Combustion vs. Post-Combustion carbon capture
3.10.5.6 Blue hydrogen projects
3.10.5.7 Costs
3.10.5.8 Market players
3.10.6 Carbon capture in cement
3.10.6.1 CCUS Projects
3.10.6.2 Carbon capture technologies
3.10.6.3 Costs
3.10.6.4 Challenges
3.10.7 Maritime carbon capture
3.11 Main carbon capture processes
3.11.1 Materials
3.11.2 Natural Gas Sweetening
3.11.3 Post-combustion
3.11.3.1 Chemicals/Solvents
3.11.3.2 Amine-based post-combustion CO2 absorption
3.11.3.3 Physical absorption solvents
3.11.3.4 Emerging Solvents for Carbon Capture
3.11.3.5 Chilled Ammonia Process (CAP)
3.11.3.6 Molten Borates
3.11.3.7 Costs
3.11.3.8 Alternatives to Solvent-Based Carbon Capture
3.11.4 Oxy-fuel combustion
3.11.4.1 Oxyfuel CCUS cement projects
3.11.4.2 Chemical Looping-Based Capture
3.11.5 Liquid or supercritical CO2: Allam-Fetvedt Cycle
3.11.6 Pre-combustion
3.12 Carbon separation technologies
3.12.1 Absorption capture
3.12.2 Adsorption capture
3.12.2.1 Solid sorbent-based CO2 separation
3.12.2.2 Metal organic framework (MOF) adsorbents
3.12.2.3 Zeolite-based adsorbents
3.12.2.4 Solid amine-based adsorbents
3.12.2.5 Carbon-based adsorbents
3.12.2.6 Polymer-based adsorbents
3.12.2.7 Solid sorbents in pre-combustion
3.12.2.8 Sorption Enhanced Water Gas Shift (SEWGS)
3.12.2.9 Solid sorbents in post-combustion
3.12.3 Membranes
3.12.3.1 Membrane-based CO2 separation
3.12.3.2 Gas Separation Membranes
3.12.3.3 Post-combustion CO2 capture
3.12.3.4 Facilitated transport membranes
3.12.3.5 Pre-combustion capture
3.12.3.6 Advanced membrane materials
3.12.3.6.1 Graphene-based membranes
3.12.3.6.2 Metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes
3.12.3.7 Membranes for Direct Air Capture
3.12.4 Liquid or supercritical CO2 (Cryogenic) capture
3.12.5 Calcium Looping
3.12.5.1 Calix Advanced Calciner
3.12.6 Other technologies
3.12.6.1 LEILAC process
3.12.6.2 CO2 capture with Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs)
3.12.6.3 CO2 capture with Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells (MCFCs)
3.12.6.4 Microalgae Carbon Capture
3.12.7 Comparison of key separation technologies
3.12.8 Technology readiness level (TRL) of gas separation technologies
3.13 Opportunities and barriers
3.14 Costs of CO2 capture
3.15 CO2 capture capacity
3.16 Direct air capture (DAC)
3.16.1 Technology description
3.16.1.1 Sorbent-based CO2 Capture
3.16.1.2 Solvent-based CO2 Capture
3.16.1.3 DAC Solid Sorbent Swing Adsorption Processes
3.16.1.4 Electro-Swing Adsorption (ESA) of CO2 for DAC
3.16.1.5 Solid and liquid DAC
3.16.2 Advantages of DAC
3.16.3 Deployment
3.16.4 Point source carbon capture versus Direct Air Capture
3.16.5 Technologies
3.16.5.1 Solid sorbents
3.16.5.2 Liquid sorbents
3.16.5.3 Liquid solvents
3.16.5.4 Airflow equipment integration
3.16.5.5 Passive Direct Air Capture (PDAC)
3.16.5.6 Direct conversion
3.16.5.7 Co-product generation
3.16.5.8 Low Temperature DAC
3.16.5.9 Regeneration methods
3.16.6 Electricity and Heat Sources
3.16.7 Commercialization and plants
3.16.8 Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in DAC
3.16.9 DAC plants and projects-current and planned
3.16.10 Capacity forecasts
3.16.11 Costs
3.16.12 Market challenges for DAC
3.16.13 Market prospects for direct air capture
3.16.14 Players and production
3.16.15 Co2 utilization pathways
3.16.16 Markets for Direct Air Capture and Storage (DACCS)
3.17 Hybrid Capture Systems
3.18 Artificial Intelligence in Carbon Capture
3.19 Integration with Renewable Energy Systems
3.20 Mobile Carbon Capture Solutions
3.21 Carbon Capture Retrofitting
4 CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL
4.1 Conventional CDR on land
4.1.1 Wetland and peatland restoration
4.1.2 Cropland, grassland, and agroforestry
4.2 Technological CDR Solutions
4.3 Main CDR methods
4.4 Novel CDR methods
4.5 Value chain
4.6 Deployment of carbon dioxide removal technologies
4.7 Technology Readiness Level (TRL): Carbon Dioxide Removal Methods
4.8 Carbon Credits
4.8.1 Description
4.8.2 Carbon pricing
4.8.3 Carbon Removal vs Carbon Avoidance Offsetting
4.8.4 Carbon credit certification
4.8.5 Carbon registries
4.8.6 Carbon credit quality
4.8.7 Voluntary Carbon Credits
4.8.7.1 Definition
4.8.7.2 Purchasing
4.8.7.3 Key Market Players and Projects
4.8.7.4 Pricing
4.8.8 Compliance Carbon Credits
4.8.8.1 Definition
4.8.8.2 Market players
4.8.8.3 Pricing
4.8.9 Durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits
4.8.10 Corporate commitments
4.8.11 Increasing government support and regulations
4.8.12 Advancements in carbon offset project verification and monitoring
4.8.13 Potential for blockchain technology in carbon credit trading
4.8.14 Buying and Selling Carbon Credits
4.8.14.1 Carbon credit exchanges and trading platforms
4.8.14.2 Over-the-counter (OTC) transactions
4.8.14.3 Pricing mechanisms and factors affecting carbon credit prices
4.8.15 Certification
4.8.16 Challenges and risks
4.9 Monitoring, reporting, and verification
4.10 Government policies
4.11 Bioenergy with Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS)
4.11.1 Feedstocks
4.11.2 BiCRS Conversion Pathways
4.12 BECCS
4.12.1 Technology overview
4.12.1.1 Point Source Capture Technologies for BECCS
4.12.1.2 Energy efficiency
4.12.1.3 Heat generation
4.12.1.4 Waste-to-Energy
4.12.1.5 Blue Hydrogen Production
4.12.2 Biomass conversion
4.12.3 CO2 capture technologies
4.12.4 BECCS facilities
4.12.5 Cost analysis
4.12.6 BECCS carbon credits
4.12.7 Sustainability
4.12.8 Challenges
4.13 Mineralization-based CDR
4.13.1 Overview
4.13.2 Storage in CO2-Derived Concrete
4.13.3 Oxide Looping
4.13.4 Enhanced Weathering
4.13.4.1 Overview
4.13.4.2 Benefits
4.13.4.3 Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV)
4.13.4.4 Applications
4.13.4.5 Commercial activity and companies
4.13.4.6 Challenges and Risks
4.13.5 Cost analysis
4.13.6 SWOT analysis
4.14 Afforestation/Reforestation
4.14.1 Overview
4.14.2 Carbon dioxide removal methods
4.14.2.1 Nature-based CDR
4.14.2.2 Land-based CDR
4.14.3 Technologies
4.14.3.1 Remote Sensing
4.14.3.2 Drone technology and robotics
4.14.3.3 Automated forest fire detection systems
4.14.3.4 AI/ML
4.14.3.5 Genetics
4.14.4 Trends and Opportunities
4.14.5 Challenges and Risks
4.14.5.1 SWOT analysis
4.14.5.2 Soil carbon sequestration (SCS)
4.14.5.2.1 Overview
4.14.5.2.2 Practices
4.14.5.2.3 Measuring and Verifying
4.14.5.2.4 Trends and Opportunities
4.14.5.2.5 Carbon credits
4.14.5.2.6 Challenges and Risks
4.14.5.2.7 SWOT analysis
4.14.5.3 Biochar
4.14.5.3.1 What is biochar?
4.14.5.3.2 Carbon sequestration
4.14.5.3.3 Properties of biochar
4.14.5.3.4 Feedstocks
4.14.5.3.5 Production processes
4.14.5.3.5.1 Sustainable production
4.14.5.3.5.2 Pyrolysis
4.14.5.3.5.2.1 Slow pyrolysis
4.14.5.3.5.2.2 Fast pyrolysis
4.14.5.3.5.3 Gasification
4.14.5.3.5.4 Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC)
4.14.5.3.5.5 Torrefaction
4.14.5.3.5.6 Equipment manufacturers
4.14.5.3.6 Biochar pricing
4.14.5.3.7 Biochar carbon credits
4.14.5.3.7.1 Overview
4.14.5.3.7.2 Removal and reduction credits
4.14.5.3.7.3 The advantage of biochar
4.14.5.3.7.4 Prices
4.14.5.3.7.5 Buyers of biochar credits
4.14.5.3.7.6 Competitive materials and technologies
4.14.5.3.8 Bio-oil based CDR
4.14.5.3.9 Biomass burial for CO2 removal
4.14.5.3.10 Bio-based construction materials for CDR
4.14.5.3.11 SWOT analysis
4.15 Ocean-based CDR
4.15.1 Overview
4.15.2 CO2 capture from seawater
4.15.3 Ocean fertilisation
4.15.3.1 Biotic Methods
4.15.3.2 Coastal blue carbon ecosystems
4.15.3.3 Algal Cultivation
4.15.3.4 Artificial Upwelling
4.15.4 Ocean alkalinisation
4.15.4.1 Electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement
4.15.4.2 Direct Ocean Capture
4.15.4.3 Artificial Downwelling
4.15.5 Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV)
4.15.6 Ocean-based CDR Carbon Credits
4.15.7 Trends and Opportunities
4.15.8 Ocean-based carbon credits
4.15.9 Cost analysis
4.15.10 Challenges and Risks
4.15.11 SWOT analysis
4.15.12 Companies
5 CARBON DIOXIDE UTILIZATION
5.1 Overview
5.1.1 Current market status
5.2 Competition with other low carbon technologies
5.3 Carbon utilization business models
5.3.1 Benefits of carbon utilization
5.3.2 Market challenges
5.4 Co2 utilization pathways
5.5 Conversion processes
5.5.1 Thermochemical
5.5.1.1 Process overview
5.5.1.2 Plasma-assisted CO2 conversion
5.5.2 Electrochemical conversion of CO2
5.5.2.1 Process overview
5.5.3 Photocatalytic and photothermal catalytic conversion of CO2
5.5.4 Catalytic conversion of CO2
5.5.5 Biological conversion of CO2
5.5.6 Copolymerization of CO2
5.5.7 Mineral carbonation
5.6 CO2-Utilization in Fuels
5.6.1 Overview
5.6.2 Production routes
5.6.3 CO2 -fuels in road vehicles
5.6.4 CO2 -fuels in shipping
5.6.5 CO2 -fuels in aviation
5.6.6 Green hydrogen for e-fuels
5.6.7 Production routes
5.6.8 Costs of e-fuel
5.6.9 Power-to-methane
5.6.9.1 Thermocatalytic pathway to e-methane
5.6.9.2 Biological fermentation
5.6.9.3 Costs
5.6.10 Algae based biofuels
5.6.11 DAC for e-fuels
5.6.12 Syngas Production Options
5.6.13 CO2-fuels from solar
5.6.14 Companies
5.6.15 Challenges
5.6.16 Global market forecasts
5.7 CO2-Utilization in Chemicals
5.7.1 Overview
5.7.2 Carbon nanostructures
5.7.3 Scalability
5.7.4 Pathways
5.7.4.1 Thermochemical
5.7.4.2 Electrochemical
5.7.4.2.1 Low-Temperature Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
5.7.4.2.2 High-Temperature Solid Oxide Electrolyzers
5.7.4.2.3 Coupling H2 and Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
5.7.4.3 Microbial conversion
5.7.4.4 Other
5.7.4.4.1 Photocatalytic
5.7.4.4.2 Plasma technology
5.7.5 Applications
5.7.5.1 Urea production
5.7.5.2 CO2-derived polymers
5.7.5.2.1 Pathways
5.7.5.2.2 Polycarbonate from CO2
5.7.5.2.3 Methanol to olefins (polypropylene production)
5.7.5.2.4 Ethanol to polymers
5.7.5.3 Inert gas in semiconductor manufacturing
5.7.6 Companies
5.7.7 Global market forecasts
5.8 CO2-Utilization in Carbon Materials
5.8.1 Overview
5.8.2 The triple-revenue thesis
5.8.3 Production routes
5.8.4 Output materials
5.8.5 Net-negative carbon claim quantification
5.8.6 Pricing comparison
5.8.7 Market forecasts
5.9 CO2-Utilization in Construction and Building Materials
5.9.1 Overview
5.9.2 Market drivers
5.9.3 Key CO2 utilization technologies in construction
5.9.4 Carbonated aggregates
5.9.5 Additives during mixing
5.9.6 Concrete curing
5.9.7 Costs
5.9.8 Market trends and business models
5.9.9 Carbon credits
5.9.10 Companies
5.9.11 Challenges
5.9.12 Global market forecasts
5.10 CO2-Utilization in Biological Yield-Boosting
5.10.1 Overview
5.10.2 CO2 utilization in biological processes
5.10.3 Applications
5.10.3.1 Greenhouses
5.10.3.1.1 CO2 enrichment
5.10.3.2 Algae cultivation
5.10.3.2.1 CO2-enhanced algae cultivation: open systems
5.10.3.2.2 CO2-enhanced algae cultivation: closed systems
5.10.3.3 Microbial conversion
5.10.3.4 Food and feed production
5.10.4 Companies
5.10.5 Global market forecasts
5.11 CO2 Utilization in Enhanced Oil Recovery
5.11.1 Overview
5.11.1.1 Process
5.11.1.2 CO2 sources
5.11.2 CO2-EOR facilities and projects
5.11.3 Challenges
5.11.4 Global market forecasts
5.12 Enhanced mineralization
5.12.1 Advantages
5.12.2 In situ and ex-situ mineralization
5.12.3 Enhanced mineralization pathways
5.12.4 Challenges
5.13 Digital Solutions and IoT in Carbon Utilization
5.14 Blockchain Applications in Carbon Trading
5.15 Carbon Utilization in Data Centers
5.16 Integration with Smart City Infrastructure
5.17 Novel Applications
5.17.1 3D Printing with CO2-derived Materials
5.17.2 CO2 in Energy Storage
5.17.3 CO2 in Electronics Manufacturing
6 CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE
6.1 Introduction
6.2 CO2 storage sites
6.2.1 Storage types for geologic CO2 storage
6.2.2 Oil and gas fields
6.2.3 Saline formations
6.2.4 Coal seams and shale
6.2.5 Basalts and ultra-mafic rocks
6.3 CO2 leakage
6.4 Global CO2 storage capacity
6.5 CO2 Storage Projects
6.6 CO2 -EOR
6.6.1 Description
6.6.2 Injected CO2
6.6.3 CO2 capture with CO2 -EOR facilities
6.6.4 Companies
6.6.5 Economics
6.7 Costs
6.8 Challenges
6.9 Storage Monitoring Technologies
6.10 Underground Hydrogen Storage Synergies
6.11 Advanced Modelling and Simulation
6.12 Storage Site Selection Criteria
6.13 Risk Assessment and Management
7 CARBON DIOXIDE TRANSPORTATION
7.1 Introduction
7.2 CO2 transportation methods and conditions
7.3 CO2 transportation by pipeline
7.4 CO2 transportation by ship
7.5 CO2 transportation by rail and truck
7.6 Cost analysis of different methods
7.7 Smart Pipeline Networks
7.8 Transportation Hubs and Infrastructure
7.9 Safety Systems and Monitoring
7.10 Future Transportation Technologies
7.11 Companies
8 COMPANY PROFILES (395 COMPANY PROFILES)
9 APPENDICES
9.1 Abbreviations
9.2 Research Methodology
9.3 Definition of Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS)
9.4 Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
10 REFERENCES
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1. Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) market drivers and trends.
Table 2. Global Investment in Carbon Capture Technologies (2010-2024)
Table 3. CCUS VC deals 2022-2025.
Table 4. CCUS government funding and investment-10 year outlook.
Table 5. Global Commercial CCUS Facilities - In Operation (2026)
Table 6. Global Commercial CCUS Facilities - Under Development/Construction
Table 7. Cost Reduction Using Proven and Emerging Technologies.
Table 8. Key market barriers for CCUS.
Table 9. Key compliance carbon pricing initiatives around the world.
Table 10. CCUS business models: full chain, part chain, and hubs and clusters.
Table 11. CCUS capture capacity forecast by CO2 endpoint, Mtpa of CO2, to 2047.
Table 12. Capture capacity by region to 2047, Mtpa.
Table 13. CCUS revenue potential ($bn)
Table 14. Capacity by capture type (Mtpa)
Table 15. Point-source CCUS capture capacity forecast by CO2 source sector, Mtpa of CO2, to 2046.
Table 16. CCUS Cost Projections 2025-2047.
Table 17. CO2 utilization and removal pathways
Table 18. Approaches for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from point sources.
Table 19. CO2 capture technologies.
Table 20. Advantages and challenges of carbon capture technologies.
Table 21. Overview of commercial materials and processes utilized in carbon capture.
Table 22. Methods of CO2 transport.
Table 23. Comparison of CO2 Transportation Methods.
Table 24. Estimated capital costs for commercial-scale carbon capture.
Table 25. Estimated costs of capture of one metric ton of carbon dioxide (Co2) by sector.
Table 26. Cost of CO2 transported at different flowrates
Table 27. Key Milestones in Carbon Market Development
Table 28. Carbon Credit Prices by Market.
Table 29. Carbon Credit Project Types.
Table 30. Life Cycle Assessment of CCUS Technologies
Table 31. Environmental Impact Assessment for CCUS Technologies.
Table 32. Comparison of CO2 capture technologies.
Table 33. Typical conditions and performance for different capture technologies.
Table 34. Conditions and Performance for Capture Technologies
Table 35. Carbon Capture Technology Providers for Existing Large-Scale Projects.
Table 36. Capture Percentages by technology.
Table 37. Metrics for CO2 Capture Agents.
Table 38. Energy consumption by technology.
Table 39. Technology Readiness of Carbon capture Technologies.
Table 40. Global CCUS Facilities Pipeline
Table 41. PSCC technologies.
Table 42. Point source examples.
Table 43. Comparison of point-source CO2 capture systems
Table 44. Global point source CO2 capture capacities
Table 45. Blue hydrogen projects.
Table 46. Commercial CO2 capture systems for blue H2.
Table 47. Market players in blue hydrogen.
Table 48. CCUS Projects in the Cement Sector.
Table 49. Carbon capture technologies in the cement sector.
Table 50. Cost and technological status of carbon capture in the cement sector.
Table 51. Assessment of carbon capture materials
Table 52. Chemical solvents used in post-combustion.
Table 53. Comparison of key chemical solvent-based systems.
Table 54. Chemical absorption solvents used in current operational CCUS point-source projects.
Table 55. Amine Solvent Carbon Capture Technology Providers for Post-Combustion Capture
Table 56. Comparison of key physical absorption solvents.
Table 57. Physical solvents used in current operational CCUS point-source projects.
Table 58. Emerging solvents for carbon capture
Table 59. Emerging Solvents for Carbon Capture.
Table 60. Oxygen separation technologies for oxy-fuel combustion.
Table 61. Large-scale oxyfuel CCUS cement projects.
Table 62. Commercially available physical solvents for pre-combustion carbon capture.
Table 63. Main capture processes and their separation technologies.
Table 64. Absorption methods for CO2 capture overview.
Table 65. Commercially available physical solvents used in CO2 absorption.
Table 66. Adsorption methods for CO2 capture overview.
Table 67. Solid sorbents explored for carbon capture.
Table 68. Carbon-based adsorbents for CO2 capture.
Table 69. Polymer-based adsorbents.
Table 70. Solid sorbents for post-combustion CO2 capture.
Table 71. Emerging Solid Sorbent Systems.
Table 72. Membrane-based methods for CO2 capture overview.
Table 73. Comparison of membrane materials for CCUS
Table 74. Commercial status of membranes in carbon capture
Table 75. Membranes for pre-combustion capture.
Table 76. Status of cryogenic CO2 capture technologies.
Table 77. Cryogenic Direct Air Capture Companies
Table 78. Benefits and drawbacks of microalgae carbon capture.
Table 79. Comparison of main separation technologies.
Table 80. Technology readiness level (TRL) of gas separation technologies
Table 81. Opportunities and Barriers by sector.
Table 82. DAC technologies.
Table 83. Advantages and disadvantages of DAC.
Table 84. Advantages of DAC as a CO2 removal strategy.
Table 85. Potential for DAC removal versus other carbon removal methods.
Table 86. Companies developing airflow equipment integration with DAC.
Table 87. Companies developing Passive Direct Air Capture (PDAC) technologies.
Table 88. Companies developing regeneration methods for DAC technologies.
Table 89. DAC companies and technologies.
Table 90. Global capacity of direct air capture facilities.
Table 91. DAC technology developers and production (2026)
Table 92. DAC projects in development.
Table 93. DACCS Carbon Removal Capacity Forecast - Base Case (Mtpa CO2), 2024-2047
Table 94. DACCS Carbon Removal Capacity Forecast - Optimistic Case (Mtpa CO2), 2030-2047
Table 95. Costs summary for DAC.
Table 96. Typical cost contributions of the main components of a DACCS system.
Table 97. Cost estimates of DAC.
Table 98. Challenges for DAC technology.
Table 99. DAC companies and technologies.
Table 100. Example CO2 utilization pathways.
Table 101. Markets for Direct Air Capture and Storage (DACCS).
Table 116. AI Applications in Carbon Capture.
Table 117. Renewable Energy Integration in Carbon Capture.
Table 118. Mobile Carbon Capture Applications.
Table 119. Carbon Capture Retrofitting.
Table 124. Market Drivers for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).
Table 125. CDR versus CCUS
Table 126. Status and Potential of CDR Technologies.
Table 127. Main CDR methods.
Table 128. Novel CDR Methods
Table 129. Carbon Dioxide Removal Technology Benchmarking
Table 130. CDR Value Chain.
Table 131. Engineered Carbon Dioxide Removal Value Chain
Table 132. Carbon pricing and carbon markets
Table 133. Carbon Removal vs Emission Reduction Offsets.
Table 134. Carbon Crediting Programs.
Table 135. Channels for Purchasing Voluntary Carbon Credits
Table 136. Voluntary Carbon Credits Trading Platforms and Exchanges.
Table 137. Voluntary Carbon Credits Key Market Players and Projects.
Table 138. Nature-Based Solutions Market Dynamics.
Table 139. Voluntary Carbon Credits Pricing by Category and Project Type.
Table 140. Price Range Analysis by Project Quality and Type:
Table 141. Compliance Carbon Credits Key Market Players and Projects.
Table 142. Comparison of Voluntary and Compliance Carbon Credits.
Table 143. Durable Carbon Removal Buyers.
Table 144. Prices of CDR Credits.
Table 145. Major Corporate Carbon Credit Commitments.
Table 146. Key Carbon Market Regulations and Support Mechanisms.
Table 147. Carbon credit prices by company and technology.
Table 148. Carbon Credit Exchanges and Trading Platforms.
Table 149. OTC Carbon Market Characteristics.
Table 150. Challenges and Risks.
Table 151. TRL of Biomass Conversion Processes and Products by Feedstock.
Table 152. BiCRS feedstocks.
Table 153. BiCRS conversion pathways.
Table 154. BiCRS Technological Challenges.
Table 155. CO2 capture technologies for BECCS.
Table 156. Existing and planned capacity for sequestration of biogenic carbon.
Table 157. Existing facilities with capture and/or geologic sequestration of biogenic CO2.
Table 158. Challenges of BECCS
Table 159. Ex Situ Mineralization CDR Methods.
Table 160. Source Materials for Ex Situ Mineralization.
Table 161. Companies in CO2-derived Concrete.
Table 162. Enhanced Weathering Applications.
Table 163. Enhanced Weathering Materials and Processes.
Table 164. Enhanced Weathering Companies
Table 165. Trends and Opportunities in Enhanced Weathering.
Table 166. Challenges and Risks in Enhan

Companies Mentioned (Partial List)

A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:

  • 8 Rivers
  • 3R-BioPhosphate
  • Adaptavate
  • Again
  • Aeroborn B.V.
  • Aether Diamonds
  • AirCapture LLC
  • Aircela Inc
  • Aurora Hydrogen
  • Airrane
  • Air Company
  • Air Liquide S.A.
  • Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
  • Air Protein
  • Air Quality Solutions Worldwide DAC
  • Airex Energy
  • AirHive
  • Airovation Technologies
  • Algal Bio Co. Ltd.
  • Algenol
  • Algiecel ApS
  • Andes Ag Inc.
  • Anhui Conch Cement Group
  • Applied Carbon
  • Aqualung Carbon Capture
  • Arborea
  • Arca
  • Ardent Process Technologies
  • Arkeon Biotechnologies
  • Asahi Kasei
  • AspiraDAC Pty Ltd.
  • Aspiring Materials
  • Atoco
  • Avantium N.V.
  • Avnos Inc.
  • Aymium
  • Axens SA
  • Azolla
  • Baker Hughes
  • Banyu Carbon
  • Barton Blakeley Technologies Ltd.
  • BASF Group
  • BC Biocarbon
  • BP PLC
  • Beijing Carbontech Industrial Co.
  • Biochar Now
  • Bio-Logica Carbon Ltd.
  • Biomacon GmbH
  • Biosorra
  • Blue Planet Systems Corporation
  • Blusink Ltd.
  • Boomitra
  • Brineworks
  • BluSky Inc.
  • Breathe Applied Sciences
  • Bright Renewables
  • Brilliant Planet Systems
  • bse Methanol GmbH
  • C-Capture
  • Concrete4Change
  • Cool Planet Energy Systems
  • Coval Energy B.V.
  • Covestro AG
  • C-Quester Inc.
  • C-Questra
  • Cquestr8 Limited
  • CREW Carbon
  • CyanoCapture
  • DACMA
  • D-CRBN
  • Decarbontek LLC
  • Deep Branch Biotechnology
  • Deep Sky
  • Denbury Inc.
  • Dimensional Energy
  • Dioxide Materials
  • Dioxycle
  • Drax
  • Earth RepAIR
  • Ebb Carbon
  • Ecocera
  • eChemicles
  • ecoLocked GmbH
  • EDAC Labs
  • Eion Carbon
  • Econic Technologies Ltd
  • EcoClosure LLC
  • Ecospray Technologies
  • Ekona Power
  • Electrochaea GmbH
  • Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT)
  • Empower Materials Inc.
  • Enerkem Inc.
  • enaDyne GmbH
  • Entropy Inc.
  • E-Quester
  • Equatic
  • Equinor ASA
  • ESTECH
  • Evonik Industries AG
  • Exomad Green
  • ExxonMobil
  • 44.01
  • Fairbrics
  • Fervo Energy
  • Fluor Corporation
  • Fortera Corporation
  • Fortum
  • Framergy Inc.
  • Freres Biochar
  • FuelCell Energy Inc.
  • Funga
  • GE Gas Power (General Electric)
  • Giammarco Vetrocoke
  • GigaBlue
  • GIG Karasek
  • Giner Inc.
  • Global Algae Innovations
  • Global Thermostat LLC
  • Graphyte
  • Grassroots Biochar AB
  • Graviky Labs
  • GreenCap Solutions AS
  • Greenlyte Carbon Technologies
  • Greeniron H2 AB
  • Green Sequest
  • Gulf Coast Sequestration
  • greenSand
  • Hago Energetics
  • Haldor Topsoe
  • Hazer Group
  • Heimdal CCU
  • Heirloom Carbon Technologies
  • HIF Global
  • High Hopes Labs
  • Holcim Group
  • Holocene
  • Holy Grail Inc.
  • Honeywell
  • Oy Hydrocell Ltd.
  • HYCO1
  • Hyvegeo
  • 1point8
  • IHI Corporation
  • Immaterial Ltd
  • Ineratec GmbH
  • Infinitree LLC
  • Infinium
  • Innovator Energy
  • InnoSepra LLC
  • Inplanet GmbH
  • InterEarth
  • ION Clean Energy Inc.
  • Japan CCS Co. Ltd.
  • Jupiter Oxygen Corporation
  • Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.
  • KC8 Capture Technologies (KC8)
  • Krajete GmbH
  • LanzaJet Inc.
  • Lanzatech
  • Lectrolyst LLC
  • Levidian Nanosystems
  • Limenet
  • The Linde Group
  • Liquid Wind AB
  • Lithos Carbon
  • Living Carbon
  • Loam Bio
  • Low Carbon Korea
  • Low Carbon Materials
  • Made of Air GmbH
  • Mango Materials Inc.
  • Mantel Capture
  • Mars Materials
  • Mattershift
  • Mati Carbon
  • MCI Carbon
  • Membrane Technology and Research (MTR)
  • Mercurius Biorefining
  • Minera Systems
  • Mineral Carbonation International (MCi) Carbon