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Carbon Capture and Storage

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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

Carbon (dioxide) Capture and Storage (CCS) is used as a mitigation strategy for addressing the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We are working to deliver new approaches, methodologies and tools for the safe and efficient operation of offshore storage sites.

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Autonomy, technology and digitisation

Advances in marine technology can deliver economic benefits and improve the management, sustainability and governance of marine and coastal environments. Our scientists, modellers and technologists operate at the forefront of marine technology development.

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  Ocean ICU: Improving Carbon Understanding

  The Horizon EU OceanICU is a five year project that seeks to gain a new understanding of the biological carbon pump and its processes in order to provide fundamental knowledge and tools to help policy makers, regulators and Ocean industry–fishing and mining, along with the wider blue econo...
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  ACTOM Decision Support Tool

  The ACTOM Decision Support Tool enables operators of offshore geological carbon storage sites to plan effective environmental monitoring, whilst minimizing cost.
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  MOET – Managing the Environmental Sustainability of the Offshore Energy Transition

  MOET will assess the environmental sustainability of offshore wind, blue and green hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage for selected test areas of the UK offshore, and will develop solutions for planning the technology and infrastructure of the offshore energy transition. It will also assess pub...
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  Act on Offshore Monitoring (ACTOM)

  ACTOM developed the capability for cost-effective monitoring of offshore carbon storage projects as part of Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS), aligning industrial, societal and regulative expectations with technological capabilities and limitations.
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  Pressure control and conformance management for safe and efficient CO storage – accelerating CCS technologies

  Pre-ACT is a €5.2M project led by the Norwegian research institute Sintef. The objective of Pre-ACT is to equip operators and regulators of carbon capture and storage with decision support protocols that enable them to establish safe and efficient monitoring systems and to quantitatively as...
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  Strategies for Environmental Monitoring of Marine Carbon Capture and Storage (STEMM-CCS)

  STEMM-CCS was an ambitious multi-disciplinary project to deliver new approaches, methodologies and tools for the safe operation of offshore carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) sites.

07 May 2026

PML backs call for safeguards on emerging ocean carbon removal technologies 

Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) has joined international organisations in backing a new joint statement calling for robust governance, transparency, and public participation and trust in the development of engineered marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) approaches. 

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  “Major blind spot” in ocean carbon research could undermine global climate predictions 

  A new international report coordinated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO highlights a critical gap in understanding how the ocean absorbs and stores carbon – a “blind spot” that could significantly undermine global climate predi...

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  PML scientists to showcase cutting-edge research at Ocean Sciences Meeting 

  From marine carbon dioxide removal to AI-powered biodiversity monitoring, PML scientists will present the latest research addressing some of the most urgent environmental challenges of our time – and explore how the ocean both responds to climate change – an...

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  Future EU Rules on Marine-Based Carbon Removal (mCDR) in discussion in Brussels

  PML experts are attending an EU gathering to discuss the role of Direct Ocean Carbon Capture and Storage (DOCCS).

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  New evidence reveals how Greenland’s seaweed locks away carbon in the deep ocean

  An interdisciplinary study confirms, for the first time, the oceanographic pathways that transport floating macroalgae from the coastal waters of Southwest Greenland to deep-sea carbon reservoirs, potentiall...