Offshore Australian carbon capture project reaches design phase

The Bonaparte carbon capture and storage (CCS) joint venture operated by Japan’s Inpex Browse E&P, TotalEnergies CCS Australia and Woodside Energy has started pre-front-end engineering design work.

The project is in the Bonaparte Basin, around 260km offshore Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. If all goes to plan, CO2 injections are slated to start around 2030.

Inpex believes it could become one of the largest CCS projects globally.