Xodus hired for Japan’s large-scale CCS project

Global energy consultancy Xodus has been awarded a contract to support the Offshore Western Kyushu carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, one of Japan’s first large-scale CCS initiatives.

According to Xodus, the project, backed by a consortium of Japanese energy firms, aims to capture and store approximately 1.7 million tons of CO2 per year from ENEOS’s oil refineries and J-POWER’s thermal power plants in the Setouchi and Kyushu regions. Captured emissions will