CCS Northern Netherlands/Netherlands   Achieve significant CO₂ reductions in the short term, but also place the Northern Netherlands on the map as a leading region with respect to energy innovation. The Northern Netherlands provides excellent perspectives for the development of a national and international CO₂ cluster. In addition to an extensive knowledge network, the region offers large potential storage locations and there are plans to build multiple large CO₂ point sources. Furthermore, the region offers both onshore and offshore possibilities for the storage of CO₂.

The European CO₂ Technology Centre Mongstad/Norway  The European CO₂ Technology Centre Mongstad will be a test and demonstration facility for CO₂ capture from flue gases. The facility will comprise two capture technologies; an amine plant and a chilled ammonia plant with a total capacity of 100,000 tons of CO₂.

PSS-CCS/Belgium  The central goal of the project PSS-CCS (Policy Support System for Carbon Capture and Storage) is the development of an economic-environmental simulator that will attempt realistic predictions regarding the impact and growth of CCS between 2010 and 2050. The simulator will be developed and its applicability demonstrated. A number of satellite targets have been defined that need to be realised in order to reach the main goal, which is the development of the PSS-CCS simulator. These secondary targets are: inventorying the geological storage potential in Flanders and the Walloon Region; the setting up of a methodology for risk evaluation of geological sites; inventorying the current and expected sources of CO₂ in Belgium; the development of an ad-hoc routing application for pipeline trajectories and networks of pipelines; and inventorying the technologies that are related to the capture and compression of CO₂. This project has brought together all expertise on CCS in Belgium. The expertise within the research groups spans the complete CCS chain. The expertise for inventorying the geological storage options for CO₂ comes from VITO and the university of Mons (FPMs).

CAPRICE/International  The overall primary objective of CAPRICE is to set up a research cooperation and an exchange of research results in the area of amine processes between the European based CASTOR consortium and the Canadian based International Test Centre consortium. While this brings together the globally leading researchers, a second objective is to extend the cooperation and exchange to third countries with a large application potential for CCS (Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage) technologies, i.e. Russia, Brazil and China.

Otway/Australia  Injection of 100,000 tons of CO₂ from natural gas wells into hydrocarbon reserves to provide technical information on storage, monitoring and verification

COACH/CHina-EU The COACH project aims at establishing broad cooperation between China and the EU in the field of CCS. The objective of Coach is to provide the technical recommendations required to design a coal-fired power station incorporating CO₂ capture and storage technologies, to be constructed in China by 2010.

The EU-China COACH project officially launched in November 2006 in Beijing as a project under the Sustainable Energy Systems theme of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) of the EU. Major activities include application of carbon capture technology in coal-fired power plants, evaluation of China's CO₂ storage potential and the study of relevant regulations and financing mechanisms. Activities will also be carried out to improve public awareness and to build CCS capacity. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2009. Eight Chinese organizations are involved in this project.

SECARB/USA  This partnership, led by Southern States Energy Board, will demonstrate CO₂ storage in the lower Tuscaloosa Formation Massive Sand Unit. This geologic formation stretches from Texas to Florida and has the potential to store more than 200 years of CO₂ emissions from major point sources in the region. The partnership will inject CO₂ at two locations to assess different CO₂ streams and how the heterogeneity of the formation affects the injection and containment.  Injection of several million tons of CO₂ from a natural deposit is expected to begin in late 2008.  The project will then conduct a second injection into the formation using CO₂ captured from a coal-fired power plant in the region.  The results of these projects will provide the foundation for the future development of CO₂ capture and storage opportunities.

PCOR/USA   The Plains CO₂ Reduction Partnership, led by the Energy & Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota, will conduct geologic CO₂ storage projects in the Alberta and Williston Basins. The Williston Basin project in North Dakota will couple enhanced oil recovery and CO₂ storage in a deep carbonate formation that is also a major saline formation. The CO₂ for this project will come from a post-combustion capture facility located at a coal-fired power plant in the region. A second test will be conducted in northwestern Alberta, Canada, and will demonstrate the co-sequestration of CO₂ and hydrogen sulfide from a large gas-processing plant into a deep saline formation. This will provide data about how hydrogen sulfide affects the sequestration process.