CCUS Hub Study identifies five Asia-Pacific hub sites and welcomes new consortium partners

• The CCUS Hub Examine is investigating the technical and business feasibility of widespread infrastructure within the Asia-Pacific area as an emissions discount possibility for hard-to-abate industries (primarily steelmaking).
• First milestone full with Part 1 of the Examine assessing greater than 3,000 potential hub places and narrowing the record to 5 key hubs in India (two hubs), Indonesia, Malaysia, and Australia.
• The 5 key hubs spotlight the alternatives and business feasibility for large-scale CCUS adoption and supply the scope of study for Part 2.
• In Part 2, the recognized hubs will probably be additional outlined and optimised, with a concentrate on business mannequin growth and extra rigorous regulatory hole evaluation.
• The aim of the Examine is to ship tailor-made evaluation that helps {industry} understanding of CCUS. The Examine additionally goals to extend public understanding of CCUS in Asia.
• The Examine welcomes three new {industry} companions: Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“Ok” LINE), Kobe Metal LTD, and Low Emission Expertise Australia (LETA).

SINGAPORE, April 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — An {industry} Consortium creating a first-of-its-kind Carbon Seize, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) Hub Examine for Asia has recognized 5 hubs as potential storage choices after assessing over 3,000 web site places.

The Examine focuses on the seize, transport, and long-term storage of carbon dioxide emissions (CO₂) from hard-to-abate sectors, together with metal, cement and chemical substances.

The Consortium, comprised of main steelmakers ArcelorMittal Nippon Metal India, JSW Metal, Hyundai Metal Firm, and different worth chain gamers, BHP, Chevron, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., commits to robust {industry} collaboration in advancing CCUS pathways. It welcomes three new companions, which can deepen the Examine’s enter throughout the worth chain and broaden the dimensions of the chance geographically:  

• “Ok” LINE joins because the strategic skilled in transport know-how for carbon dioxide.  
• Kobe Metal LTD. brings deep technical steelmaking expertise and abatement commitments.  
• LETA supplies industry-leading experience on international lower-emissions applied sciences.

The {industry} Consortium commenced a prefeasibility research in August 2025 to judge the event alternative of CCUS hubs throughout Asia.

Via a high-level choices research, Part 1 of the undertaking assessed greater than 3,000 potential storage websites throughout the Asia-Pacific. This course of narrowed the sphere to 5 hubs positioned in India (two hubs), Indonesia, Malaysia, and Australia – every chosen for his or her potential efficiency throughout the complete CCUS worth chain, together with seize, aggregation, transport, export to storage, utilisation approaches together with know-how and business readiness and market analysis, and the coverage and business circumstances wanted for deployment.

The 5 hubs have been chosen on the idea of them offering a various set of traits, serving to the Examine study necessary commerce‑offs, form the CCUS growth pathway, and pinpoint the sensible steps required for feasibility. The chosen hubs characterize regional and worldwide places and embody each onshore and offshore storage.

The findings thus far show that no matter which hub is chosen, robust coverage assist, focused incentives, and clear regulatory frameworks are important to creating CCUS commercially viable.

Part 2 of the Examine will undertake detailed engineering and business evaluation of the 5 shortlisted hubs. This contains maturing engineering definition and creating potential implementation roadmaps to deal with key alternatives and challenges. The work will culminate in conceptual growth plans outlining the enterprise case, worth chain design, CO₂ forecasts, and potential pathways to abatement realisation for every hub.

By leveraging shared infrastructure and economies of scale, the Examine seeks potential functions for captured CO₂ in industrial processes, or transport captured CO₂ by way of pipeline or transport to storage websites.

The aim of the Examine is to ship tailor-made evaluation that helps {industry} understanding of CCUS. The Examine additionally goals to extend public understanding of CCUS in Asia.

The CCUS Hub Examine is being delivered by Hatch as Venture Administration Officer in collaboration with Tempo CCS, McDaniel, and International CCS Institute. 

The Consortium continues to welcome new companions and emphasises that CCUS stays a important pathway for industries wanting to attain web zero emissions.

Quotes from the Consortium events

“Ok” LINE: Michitomo Iwashita, Senior Managing Company Officer

“We consider that CCUS will play an important position in realizing a carbon impartial society sooner or later. Specifically, for onerous to abate sectors such because the metal {industry}, CCUS represents an indispensable resolution for attaining decarbonization.

“Via our participation on this consortium, we are going to deepen collaboration with {industry} companions and actively contribute, from the attitude of maritime transportation, to the institution of a sustainable CO₂ worth chain.”

LETA:  Mark McCallum, CEO

“That is precisely the type of severe, cross-industry and worldwide collaboration that demonstrates how industries important to the world’s economies together with mining, metal, cement and energy technology, can all work collectively to deal with the challenges of decarbonisation.

“The consortium has recognized numerous decarbonisation alternatives throughout the area, in addition to the applied sciences and insurance policies that will probably be wanted to unlock funding and motion.”

Kobe Metal LTD: Yoichiro Yamazaki, Government Officer for the Expertise Technique & Planning Division and companywide technical growth

“Decarbonising hard-to-abate industries would require scalable options, collaboration and enabling coverage and regulatory frameworks. The Examine has reached an necessary milestone and supplies a powerful basis for additional technical definition going ahead.

“We joined the Consortium to carry steelmaking experience and to play an lively position in advancing sensible approaches to CCUS deployment that assist emissions discount and the long-term sustainability of the {industry}. We stay up for persevering with to work with companions to assist develop actionable routes towards real-world implementation.”

ArcelorMittal Nippon Metal India: Dr. Arvind Bodhankar, Chief Sustainability Officer

“The research has delivered important and inspiring insights, highlighting the power and success of the Consortium’s collaborative method.

“As we transition to Part 2, I’m assured the work will progress successfully, offering larger readability by means of detailed engineering, business evaluation, and strengthening pathways towards large-scale deployment.

“As outlined in ArcelorMittal Nippon Metal India’s Local weather Motion Report 2024, Carbon Seize, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) is likely one of the key levers to attain the web zero purpose for our firm.

“We now have persistently supported credible, collaborative initiatives that speed up large-scale CO₂ emissions discount.

“We strongly advocate sustainable steelmaking as each a aggressive crucial and a accountability to the communities round us, notably for the generations to come back.”

BHP: Dr Ben Ellis, Vice President Advertising Sustainability

“BHP is dedicated to supporting our steelmaking clients to decarbonise as demand for top of the range metal continues to develop to broaden power networks, construct infrastructure and assist a rising inhabitants.

“With greater than 1 billion tonnes of manufacturing a yr in Asia coming from blast furnace capability that’s comparatively early in its manufacturing life, it’s necessary for {industry} to progress applied sciences to decrease the emissions depth of current steelmaking belongings whereas new business pathways to decarbonise steelmaking are developed over time.

 “Revolutionary options—just like the potential of CCUS—are a necessary a part of decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors resembling steelmaking. This research will play an necessary position in leveraging shared information and assets throughout the {industry} with lots of the world’s main steelmakers mentioning carbon seize, utilisation and storage (CCUS) of their decarbonisation plans.”

Chevron Australia New Energies (CANE): David Fallon, Australia’s Decrease Carbon Execution Common Supervisor

“Chevron Australia seems to be ahead to the outcomes of the CCUS Hub research. We consider within the important position carbon seize and storage (CCS) can play in a decrease carbon world.

“We proceed to leverage our experience and international attain to advance CCS applied sciences and scale decrease carbon options throughout the worth chain together with within the hard-to-abate sector.”

Hyundai Metal Firm: Yonghee Kim, Vice President, Course of R&D Sub-Division

“As we conclude Part 1 of the undertaking, we’ve got not solely recognized 5 extremely promising CCUS hubs, but additionally laid a powerful basis for large-scale CO₂ discount by means of shut collaboration among the many Consortium members.

“The participation of recent Consortium members is predicted to additional enrich views and strengthen cross-industry cooperation.

“Hyundai Metal stays dedicated to main the event of CCUS and different low-carbon applied sciences, contributing to enhanced sustainability throughout the {industry}.”

JSW Metal: Prabodha Acharya, Chief Sustainability Officer

“The completion of Part 1 of the CCUS Hub Examine marks an necessary milestone in constructing the foundations for largescale industrial decarbonisation in India and the Asia -Pacific area.

“As one in every of India’s main metal producers, JSW Metal is taking a management position in advancing CCUS as a important enabler for hard-to-abate sectors, alongside renewable power, effectivity, and course of innovation.

“This Part 1 work displays JSW’s dedication to convening {industry} companions, know-how suppliers, and policymakers to develop shared infrastructure and credible, investable pathways that may speed up India’s web zero transition whereas strengthening industrial competitiveness.”

Mitsui & Co., Ltd.: Hideaki Konishi, Managing Officer, Mineral & Steel Sources BU COO

“Mitsui welcomes the brand new member corporations becoming a member of the CCUS Hub Examine Consortium and appears ahead to additional strengthening cross‑{industry} collaboration in Part 2, which can contain detailed evaluation of 5 shortlisted hubs.

“Figuring out promising hub candidates throughout the Asia-Pacific area by means of this Examine represents an necessary step towards establishing viable pathways for large-scale CO₂ discount.

“By bringing collectively various experience throughout industries, Mitsui will work with the Consortium companions to assist the deployment of the CCUS hub in Asia and speed up progress towards attaining web zero emissions by 2050.”

Hatch: Jan Kwak, Managing Director, Local weather Change Applied sciences

“Hatch is fiercely dedicated to the pursuit of a greater world by means of constructive change and continues to ship world-class undertaking supply, skilled companies and engineering options for the metals, power and infrastructure industries.

“Working with the CCUS Consortium, we realise a shared imaginative and prescient – one the place we create unprecedented outcomes for the environment, companies, and communities as we deal with a number of the hardest-to-abate industries.

“We’re proud to assist the Consortium and shoppers all over the world to mitigate greenhouse fuel emissions and meet their carbon impartial commitments.

“This research represents actual, tangible progress and proves CCUS is the very best know-how for advancing carbon abatement efforts.”

#ENDS  

Concerning the Consortium Members

“Ok” LINE: Based in 1919, is likely one of the world’s main transport corporations, working a diversified fleet throughout a variety of maritime transportation sectors. Constructing on its intensive expertise in liquefied fuel carriers, together with LPG carriers since 1974 and LNG carriers since 1983, “Ok” LINE has expanded into LCO₂ transportation enterprise.

Particularly, we’re accumulating hands-on expertise and operational know-how in LCO₂ transportation by means of participation in a number of CCS-related initiatives resembling “Northern Lights” in Norway and a few government-supported initiatives in Japan.

Primarily based on these experiences, “Ok” LINE is effectively positioned to contribute to the protected and dependable LCO₂ transportation within the CCUS worth chain.

Specifically, we goal to assist the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors, together with the metal {industry}, by means of a spread of sensible initiatives, resembling working LNG-fuelled bulk carriers, transporting direct decreased iron (DRI), and likewise offering LCO₂ transportation options.

The “Ok” LINE Group is actively selling a spread of initiatives geared toward supporting its personal decarbonisation efforts and people of society in accordance with its long-term environmental pointers, “Ok” LINE Environmental Imaginative and prescient 2050 – Blue Seas for the Future.

LETA:  Low Emission Expertise Australia (LETA) is a not-for-profit funding fund that accelerates the event and deployment of know-how options to scale back and take away greenhouse fuel emissions from hard-to-abate industrial sectors together with metal, cement, chemical substances, and energy technology.

Since 2006, LETA members have contributed greater than $400 million to low emissions initiatives, unlocking a complete funding of $1.1 billion. LETA brings collectively {industry}, authorities, and analysis to drive sensible, scalable pathways to web zero for industries that can’t merely electrify.

Kobe Metal, Ltd. (KOBELCO): Is a Japan-based diversified producer with three core enterprise areas: supplies, equipment and electrical energy. Based in 1905, KOBELCO’s Supplies enterprise contains steelmaking and associated merchandise that assist a variety of industries.

KOBELCO is dedicated to attaining carbon neutrality by 2050 and is advancing initiatives that mix know-how growth with sensible course of transition.

As a part of its decarbonisation efforts, KOBELCO is exploring pathways together with hydrogen and carbon seize and storage (CCS).

Recognising that progress relies upon not solely on know-how but additionally on enabling circumstances, KOBELCO works with stakeholders throughout the worth chain—together with suppliers, clients, governments and {industry} our bodies—to assist construct GX provide chains and the market and coverage frameworks wanted for sustainable decarbonisation.

BHP: Is a worldwide assets firm. With greater than 90,000 staff and contractors, we work in additional than 90 places worldwide and our merchandise are offered globally. 

We’re targeted on the assets the world must develop and decarbonise. Inhabitants development, urbanisation and bettering residing requirements are international tendencies that underpin robust demand for the commodities we produce. Demand for important commodities is predicted to extend because the world seeks to decarbonise. Our undertaking pipeline and concentrate on steady enchancment in current operations go away us effectively positioned throughout our 4 key commodity pillars of copper, potash, iron ore and steelmaking coal within the many years forward.  

We’re partnering with clients and others to attempt to speed up decarbonisation in steelmaking. BHP’s 2030 targets embody supporting {industry} to develop metal manufacturing know-how able to 30 per cent decrease GHG emissions depth relative to traditional blast furnace steelmaking, with widespread adoption anticipated post-2030.  

ArcelorMittal Nippon Metal India (AM/NS India): Is a three way partnership between ArcelorMittal and Nippon Metal, two of the world’s main metal manufacturing organisations. A number one built-in flat carbon metal producer in India, the corporate has a crude metal capability of 9 million tonnes each year with state-of-the-art downstream services.

It produces a completely diversified vary of flat metal merchandise, together with value-added metal, and has a pellet capability of 20 million tonnes. The corporate can also be organising an 8.2 million tonnes each year built-in metal plant in Andhra Pradesh. With the goal to make metal manufacturing climate-neutral, ArcelorMittal Nippon Metal India has strategic plans to transition its enterprise to cleaner know-how and is seeking to strengthen its sustainability roadmap by means of clear power sources viz., renewable energy, pure fuel, carbon seize utilization and/or storage and inexperienced hydrogen. ArcelorMittal Nippon Metal India is the one built-in metal firm in India to obtain the Inexperienced Metal Certificates from the Union Ministry of Metal.

Hyundai Metal Firm: Established in 1953 as Korea’s first metal producer, is a member of Hyundai Motor Group and a recognised chief in high-performance metal supplies. Hyundai Metal has paved the way in which for sustainable development by launching its blast furnace enterprise within the 2010s as a brand new development engine, along with its current electrical arc furnace-based operations.

Hyundai Metal has served as a main mover in Korea’s metal {industry} and is now actively endeavor the institution of an abroad manufacturing base to safe a basis for future development. Hyundai Metal goals to attain net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, emphasising sustainable practices and modern carbon-neutral applied sciences to satisfy government-mandated carbon discount necessities and grow to be a low-carbon steelmaker.  

JSW Metal: Is the flagship firm of the US$23 billion JSW Group, a diversified Indian conglomerate with pursuits spanning power, infrastructure, cement, paints, realty, mobility, defence, sports activities, and enterprise capital.

Over three many years, JSW Metal has developed into India’s main built-in metal producer with a consolidated crude metal capability of 35.7 MTPA (together with 1.5 MTPA within the US), set to develop to 43.4 MTPA in three years.

Its Vijayanagar plant in Karnataka is India’s largest single-location metal facility at 17.5 MTPA. JSW Metal is recognised for sustainability and operational excellence, incomes accolades just like the Metal Sustainability Champion (2019–2026), Deming Prize for TQM, and prime rankings in CDP disclosures and international sustainability indices. It ranks 1st globally in S&P International CSA Rating 2025 and eighth in World-Class Steelmaker Rankings by WSD.

Dedicated to local weather targets, JSW Metal targets a 42% CO₂ discount by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050, aiming to energy steel-making completely with renewables by 2030. It’s additionally licensed as a Nice Place to Work and recognised amongst India’s finest employers in well being and wellness.  

Chevron Australia New Energies (CANE): Is a subsidiary of Chevron, one of many world’s main built-in power corporations and thru its Australian subsidiaries, has been current in Australia for greater than 70 years.

With the ingenuity and dedication of hundreds of staff, Chevron in Australia operates the Gorgon and Wheatstone pure fuel services and is a big investor in exploration, operates one of many world’s largest built-in CCS initiatives at Gorgon, and delivers high quality fuels and lubricants primarily by way of its Caltex community of service stations throughout Australia.

Globally, Chevron goals to develop its oil and fuel enterprise, decrease the carbon depth of its operations, and develop new companies in renewable fuels, carbon seize and offsets, hydrogen, energy technology for knowledge facilities, and rising applied sciences, by means of numerous subsidiaries together with CANE.  

Mitsui & Co., Ltd.: Is a worldwide buying and selling and funding firm with a presence in additional than 60 international locations and a various enterprise portfolio protecting a variety of industries.

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. identifies, develops, and grows its companies in partnership with a worldwide community of trusted companions together with world main corporations, combining its geographic and cross-industry strengths to create long-term sustainable worth for its stakeholders.

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. has set “International Vitality Transition” as one in every of Key Strategic Initiatives within the Medium-term Administration Plan 2026.  

Hatch: Is a worldwide engineering, undertaking supply, {and professional} companies agency. We work with shoppers across the globe to design and construct options with them.

With seven many years of enterprise and technical expertise within the mining, power, and infrastructure sectors, we all know and perceive {industry} challenges and reply with options which can be smarter, extra environment friendly, and modern.

We draw upon our 11,000 workers with expertise in over 150 international locations to problem the established order and create constructive change for our shoppers, our staff, and the communities we serve.

Media contacts: 

(BHP) Michael Cox 
Tel: +65 8964 3561 
E mail: michael.cox1@bhp.com  

(Hatch) Lindsay Janca   
Tel: +1 905 403 4199 
E mail: media@hatch.com   

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