Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could enable the United States to safely capture and store hundreds of millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) each year that otherwise would be released into the atmosphere.

At ExxonMobil, we’ve been safely and effectively engaged in CCS for more than 30 years, capturing more human-made carbon dioxide to date than any other company in the world. Our captured CO₂ is injected thousands of feet underground – into geologic storage sites well below sources of drinking water. Once stored, we use a three-tier system of technologies to continually monitor sites to ensure the CO₂ is permanently stored at the atmospheric, near-surface and deep sub-surface levels.

CCS is one of the few proven technologies with the potential to significantly lower emissions from certain hard-to-decarbonize sectors, such as manufacturing and heavy industry. In fact, the International Energy Agency says it will be “virtually impossible” to reach societal net-zero emissions without CCS.

The benefits of CCS expand beyond the important goal of reducing the amount of CO₂ that reaches the atmosphere—the expansion of CCS could help enable the growth of tens of thousands of new jobs and protect thousands of existing ones, while potentially accelerating innovation in new technologies, like low-carbon hydrogen, aimed at reducing CO₂ emissions.

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