South Africa’s pilot carbon capture scheme officially inaugurated

The Council for Geoscience (CGS) on Monday announced that the country’s first carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) research site had been officially inaugurated. This marked the conclusion of Phase 1 of South Africa’s pilot CCUS project. However, the inauguration of the site, at Leandra in Mpumalanga province, actually took place last week. This step followed the completion of a successful geological characterisation study of the site. This included the drilling of a 1 800 m stratigraphic borehole. This confirmed the site’s suitability for the permanent and safe storage of CO2.