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Carbon capture capacity in operation, by sector

How much CO2 the world's operating carbon capture facilities are built to capture each year, by the sector they capture it from, including direct air capture, as recorded in the IEA's CCUS Projects Database. This is capacity, not the CO2 actually captured.

Latest value

62.534Mt CO₂/yr

World (projects in every country in the database), 26 March 2026. Version CCUS Projects Database, file of 2026-03-26.

Carbon capture capacity in operation, by sector (million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year of capture capacity)

10 values from 26 March 2026 to 26 March 2026. Lines: All sectors, Natural gas processing and LNG, Hydrogen or ammonia, Biofuels, Other fuel transformation.
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Carbon capture capacity in operation, by sector, every value
PeriodSectorValue (Mt CO₂/yr)Status
2026-03-26All sectors62.534final
2026-03-26Natural gas processing and LNG37.603final
2026-03-26Hydrogen or ammonia1.000final
2026-03-26Biofuels2.695final
2026-03-26Other fuel transformation7.870final
2026-03-26Power5.150final
2026-03-26Cement0.700final
2026-03-26Iron and steel1.425final
2026-03-26Other industry6.070final
2026-03-26Direct air capture0.021final
Calculated by Environment Dashboard from IEA 2026; CCUS Projects Database, https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/ccus-projects-database, License: CC BY 4.0 Changes: Summed the announced capacity of operating capture projects by sector, as the IEA's explorer does. CC BY 4.0, subject to the IEA Notice for CC-licensed Content.

Where it comes from

Producer
International Energy Agency · CCUS Projects Database (via the CCUS Projects Explorer)
Version
CCUS Projects Database, file of 2026-03-26
File
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/scripts/ccus-projects-database/data/projects.json
Fetched
2026-10-08 (automatically), 81,098 bytes
Fingerprint
sha256 d132d5f6032cc4794e32a2fbebf232b83eea36d2625ecfd91e240f37f0d8c035ETag 0x8DE8B2368A938A2 · Last-Modified Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:35:32 GMT
Copies
Archived copy (Wayback Machine) Our copy of the exact file
Cite the producer
IEA, CCUS Projects Database, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/ccus-projects-database, Licence: CC BY 4.0

What was done to it

  1. Read the CCUS Projects Explorer's data file (fetched 2026-10-08, Last-Modified 2026-03-26, sha256 d132d5f6032c…): 422 projects, read with exact decimals.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/iea_ccus.py · code sha256 ff9283d96f56d127… · inputs d132d5f6032c…

  2. Kept the 390 projects the explorer counts: capacity above zero and a status other than 'Suspended/cancelled/decommissioned'.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/iea_ccus.py · code sha256 ff9283d96f56d127… · inputs d132d5f6032c…

  3. Applied the explorer's sector chart rule: left out transport and storage projects (projectType T&S, Transport, Storage) and industrial clusters, and projects without a start year or starting after 2030; kept those with status Operational.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/iea_ccus.py · code sha256 ff9283d96f56d127… · inputs d132d5f6032c…

  4. Summed their capacity (Mt CO2 per year) by the explorer's sectors, and over all sectors, exactly.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/iea_ccus.py · code sha256 ff9283d96f56d127… · inputs d132d5f6032c…

What it covers

Geography
World (projects in every country in the database)
Basis
Announced capacity of capture facilities (capture, full-chain and utilisation projects; transport and storage projects left out), as the IEA's CCUS Projects Explorer sums it. Capacity is what a facility is designed or announced to capture, not CO2 actually captured or stored. Only projects above 100,000 tonnes a year (1,000 for direct air capture) with an announced timeline are in the database.
Unit
million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year of capture capacity (Mt CO₂/yr)