Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd. (President: Yukito Ishiwa, Head Office: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter "NSE") is pleased to announce that it has been awarded two contracts for Front End Engineering Design (FEED) in relation to the Metropolitan Area CCS*¹ Project, which was selected through the public call for proposals for “Outsourced Study Project Pertaining to Design Work for Advanced CCS Projects”*² conducted by the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC), with the aim of commencing CO₂ storage by FY2030. These two FEED contracts are awarded by Nippon Steel Corporation (President: Tadashi Imai, Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) and Metropolitan CCS, Ltd. (President: Yoshiaki Oku, Head Office: Chiba-shi, Chiba), respectively. (For further details, please refer to the table below.)

Leveraging the technology and expertise cultivated through the execution of numerous energy and offshore resource development projects in both of domestic and international projects, NSE group provides optimized, one-stop engineering services for the key facilities required in CCS projects—including CO₂ separation and capture (ESCAP®*³), transportation (onshore pipelines and stations), liquefaction and storage, injection and sequestration (offshore pipelines and platforms)—covering the entire CCS value chain.

NSE group will continue to strengthen its efforts toward the social implementation of CCS and contribute to the realization of a carbon-neutral society.

• *1　　CCS stands for Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage. It refers to the process of capturing CO₂ generated mainly from industrial activities and storing it underground.
• *2　　From FY2024, a new public call for proposals for “Design Work, etc. for Advanced CCS Projects” was launched for the purpose of reduction of CCS costs as well as mitigation of uncertainties and risks related to underground carbon storage, by conducting basic design work for the entire CCS value chain and assessment of carbon storage potential. The projects that will be given priority support in the future have been adopted (see reference).
• *3　　ESCAP®, our energy-saving CO₂ absorption and capture technology, can produce high-purity CO₂, including　food-grade, from raw gases such as exhaust gas from steelworks and power plants. It is widely applicable for CCU and CCS purposes. Its primary features include high thermal energy efficiency (43% reduction in heat consumption compared to conventional technologies) and impurity removal from both of the raw gases and the separated CO₂. There are two existing commercial plants in Japan: (1) for steelworks exhaust gas (120 tons-CO₂/day), (2) for coal-fired power plant exhaust gas, (143 tons-CO₂/day).

List of Awarded FEED Contracts

Location Map of Advanced CCS Projects Adopted by JOGMEC

Reference: https://www.jogmec.go.jp/news/release/news_10_00191.html

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