CCS Efforts Overseas
With support from JOGMEC, JAPEX is also advancing the "Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia CCS Project." In addition, JAPEX has invested in a combined project in the United States involving CCS and the production of natural gas and helium.
Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia CCS Project
Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia, is one of the largest potential storage sites in Asia, suitable for developing CCS/CCUS clusters utilizing depleted oil and gas fields.
With national support as a JOGMEC Advanced CCS Project since FY2024, the aim is to build a large-scale cross-border CCS value chain in which CO₂ separated and captured by multiple emitters in Malaysia, Japan and other countries will be transported, injected and stored underground.
| Item | Details |
| Company | Japan Petroleum Exploration Com Ltd., JGC Holdings Corporation, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., Petronas CCS Ventures Sdn. Bhd., JFE Steel Corporation, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc., Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Nippon Gas Line Co.,Ltd. |
| Area of CO₂ Storage | Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia (Offshore depleted Oil and gas field) |
| CO₂ Storage Volume | Approx. 5 million tons/year (assumed at the start of operations) |
| CO₂ Emission Source | Multiple industries in the Setouchi region, such as steelworks, power plants, and chemical plants, as well as overseas CO₂ emission sites |
| Export method | Ships and pipeline |
| Project Outline | The project aims to build a large-scale cross-border CCS value chain by recovering CO₂ emitted from multiple industries in the Setouchi region, aggregating it at an export hub via pipelines and domestic vessels for loading onto oceangoing vessels, and, in addition, injecting CO₂ from overseas emission sites. |
Initiatives Other Than Advanced CCS Projects
- United States -- Dry Piney, Wyoming
Through its subsidiary Japex (U.S.) Corp., JAPEX has made a capital participation in Blue Spruce Operating LLC and is considering a project in the Dry Piney area of Wyoming to process produced gas, separate, recover, and sell natural gas and helium, and conduct CCS for CO₂.
- 関連ニュース
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- Press Release on September 17, 2025 JAPEX, Idemitsu, and HEPCO Commission an engineering design work toward the Launch of CCS Project in Tomakomai Area as the "Japanese Advanced CCS Project"
- Press Release on June 19, 2023 Agreed on Joint Evaluation with JFE Steel Corporation to Establish CCS Value Chain Originated from Japan Aligned with CCS Study in Malaysia
- Press Release on July 29, 2022 JGC CORPORATION and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. Joins CCS Study in Malaysia
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