Moomba Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Project – Australia

End User: Santos

The Moomba Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Project, a joint venture between and Beach Energy, is one of the biggest and lowest cost carbon reduction projects in the world and will safely and permanently store 1.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year in the same reservoirs that held oil and gas in place for tens of millions of years.

The Moomba gas plant is located 800km north of Adelaide in the Strzelecki desert in South Australia and receives production from more than 100 oil and gas fields operating in the onshore Cooper Basin. Scheduled to enter service in 2024, the CCS project will capture CO2 from the Moomba gas plant operated by Santos and transport the same through an underground pipeline for permanent storage in the depleted gas reservoirs of the Cooper Basin in South Australia.

The facility will enable Santos and Beach Energy to reduce their carbon footprint and offset South Australia’s CO2 emissions by more than 7%. Subject to future expansions, the Moomba CCS will have an ultimate storage capacity of 20Mt of CO2 a year. Santos has successfully registered the Moomba CCS project with the Clean Energy Regulator.