On November 18, at the establishment conference of the Yangtze River Delta Offshore CCUS Industry Alliance held in Shanghai, CNOOC (China) Co., Ltd. took the lead in initiating and jointly established the “Yangtze River Delta Offshore CCUS Industry Alliance” with over 30 organizations, including China Baowu, COSCO Shipping, Zhejiang Energy Group, Shenergy Group, Shanghai Energy Efficiency Center, Zhejiang University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
It is understood that CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage), as an effective pathway for large-scale and deep decarbonization of fossil energy, is a strategic underpinning technology for achieving the carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals and ensuring national energy security. Currently, the Yangtze River Delta region has a concentration of industries and abundant innovation resources, and has already established a certain foundation in CCUS technology R&D and industrial application.
The alliance will build a collaborative innovation system guided by the government, led by enterprises, and supported by academic institutions. In the future, it will focus on information sharing, technical exchange, talent cultivation, policy research, standard formulation, project demonstration, and industrial cultivation. It will concentrate on key core technologies, promote the construction of demonstration projects and their commercialized, large-scale application, jointly build an offshore CCUS demonstration zone, and provide solid support for the green and low-carbon transition of the Yangtze River Delta.
Ge Dongbo, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, stated that Shanghai will actively implement the national “Dual Carbon” strategy, take the establishment of the alliance as an opportunity to strengthen technological innovation and industrial collaboration, fully support the alliance in playing its platform role, jointly promote breakthroughs in offshore CCUS technology and its demonstration application in the Yangtze River Delta, and inject new momentum into the region’s green and low-carbon development.
