Australia holds a unique natural advantage in CCS that is directly aligned with our economic strengths and legislated decarbonisation goals. This enables us to support partners across the entire resource value chain, from natural gas and coal to steel, cement, fertiliser, chemicals, and hydrogen, by providing access to world-class geological storage capacity. Integrated CCS creates new decarbonisation pathways for these industries, particularly for hard-to-abate sectors, while underpinning the development of certified low-emissions exports such as LNG, hydrogen, and ammonia.

With world-class geological storage close to major industrial and export hubs, Australia can deliver cost-effective CO₂ geological storage across industries while also positioning itself as a regional leader in CO₂ storage services, generating long-term revenue and ensuring our exports remain competitive in a decarbonising global market.

While global peers in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe are catalysing CCS with multi-billion-dollar investments and incentives, Australia’s support has dwindled. We are now in fierce competition with our near-neighbours, such as Malaysia and Indonesia.

Without new investment, planning for the decommissioning of the globally unique, A$200M OITC must begin in 2026. This would represent an irreversible loss of national research capability.

The Safeguard Mechanism is the Australian Government’s primary policy for reducing emissions from our largest industrial facilities. It effectively mandates that new gas fields with reservoir CO₂ must deploy CCS to achieve a net-zero emissions baseline. Our Future Research Program directly enables compliance with this policy by delivering the validated, cost-effective storage and monitoring technologies that industry needs to meet these stringent requirements and invest with confidence.

The Future Gas Strategy makes it clear that natural gas and LNG will remain critical to Australia’s economy and the energy security of our Asia-Pacific partners. But their emissions intensity must fall. CO2CRC’s research provides the proven pathway to achieve this at scale, keeping LNG competitive and enabling secure, low-emissions exports such as hydrogen and ammonia to a carbon-conscious global market.

Australia’s international obligations under the London Protocol have opened the door for the nation to become a regional leader in providing CO₂ storage services. Our research program builds the technical and regulatory confidence needed to unlock this opportunity by investing in this capability, we can support the decarbonisation efforts of our trading partners and create new, long-term export revenue streams for the nation.

Participate in high-impact, applied research programs designed to accelerate CCS innovation, with opportunities to co-invest and secure additional funding from other partners.

Gain preferential access to the globally unique A$200 million Otway International Test Centre for proprietary and collaborative research, technology trials, and workforce training.

Join a powerful network of industry leaders, government agencies, and global research institutions to shape the national research agenda , tackle realworld CCS challenges and advance industry-ready solutions.