Japan CCS (JCCS) was founded in May 2008, prior to the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit, when a group of major private corporations with expertise in CCS-related fields, including electric power, petroleum, oil development, and engineering, joined forces to answer the Japanese government's call for development of CCS technology. Because JCCS is the world's first privately owned company dedicated to integrated CCS technology, its birth was a global milestone with the potential to energize the fight against climate change worldwide. Japanese technologies, with their renowned attention to detail, are ideally suited to meet the key challenges of fine-tuning, optimizing, and improving the efficiency of CCS constituent technologies and integrated CCS systems. To date JCCS has undertaken a variety of commissioned and grant-supported projects funded by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in preparation for large-scale demonstration projects planned for the near future.
ONGOING DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
| New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) | |
| Project name | Feasibility Study on a Total System from Electric Power Generation to CO2 Storage |
| Period | July 2008~March 2010 |
| Project Overview | A feasibility study on a CCS total system, captured CO2 at NAKOSO IGCC Power Demonstration Plant is transported to and stored in the depleted Iwaki-oki offshore gas field. |
Project Contents |
Conceptual design and optimization of a CO2 capture system Conceptual design and optimization of a CO2 storage system Storage potential estimation and economical evaluation. |
| Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) | |
| Project name | Development of Assessment Technologies for a Deep Aquifer, appropriate for Demonstrations as a part of Research and Development of Underground Storage Technology for Carbon-dioxide |
| Period | September 2008~March 2009 |
| Project Overview | Evaluation study for site screening for CCS demonstrations in Japan and acquiring of benchmarks for CCS deployment. |
| Project Contents |
Geological evaluation of potential sites for CCS demonstrations Conceptual design of CCS models at several sites Fault and environmental evaluations Integrated assessment of candidate sites supported by economical ripple-effect evaluations and laboratory experiments for risk assessments, etc. |
| Project name | Demonstration of CO2 Reduction Technologies |
| Period | January 2009~March 2010 |
| Project Overview | Field surveys at candidate sites for CCS demonstrations. |
| Project Contents |
Offshore pipeline route survey 3D seismic survey Preparation for an investigation well, etc. |
| Project name | Demonstration of CO2 Reduction Technologies |
| Period | April 2009~March 2010 |
| Project Overview | Field surveys at candidate sites for CCS demonstrations. |
| Project Contents | Investigation well drilling at one candidate site for demonstration Preparations for field surveys at the other candidate sites, conceptual to basic design of CCS system, etc. |