Trend of global carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage industry and challenges and countermeasures in China

Abstract

This paper systematically reviews the trend of carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) industry in the world and China, presents the CCUS projects, clusters, technologies and strategies/policies, and analyzes the CCUS challenges and countermeasures in China based on the comparison of CCUS industrial development at home and abroad. The global CCUS development has experienced three stages: exploration stage, policy driven stage, and dual-drive stage. Currently, the active large-scale CCUS projects around the world focus on enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and are expanding into storage in saline aquifers. The CCUS industry of China has evolved in three stages: exploration, pilot test, and industrialization. In the current critical period of transition from field test to industrialization, China's CCUS projects are EOR-dominated. By comparing the industrial development of CCUS in China and abroad, it is found that the scale-up and industrialization of CCUS in China face challenges in technology, facilities and policies. Finally, future solutions to CCUS development in China are proposed as follows: strengthening the top-level design and planning of CCUS; developing high-efficiency and low-cost CCUS technologies throughout the whole industrial chain; deploying CCUS oil and gas + new energy clusters; improving the policy support system of CCUS; and strengthening discipline construction and personnel training, etc.