CO₂ Transport

Pipeline infrastructure, Alaska, USA.
Image courtesy of BP

Today CO₂ transport is carried out by truck, ship or pipeline. However, to transport the large amounts of CO₂ from power plant emissions, pipelines are the only practical solution. This pipeline CO₂ transportation process is well understood as CO₂ pipelines have been used since the 1970s, transporting large volumes of CO₂ to oil fields for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). For example, US pipeline infrastructure has the capacity to safely and reliably carry 50 million tons of CO₂ a year.