Momentum is building in the Asia–Pacific (APAC) region for increased decarbonisation spurred by government policy development and cross-border industrial partnerships. Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia for example are progressing the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Hub concept where carbon dioxide can be imported from countries with less suitable geology for CCS such as Japan, Korea and Singapore. These hubs are generally aiming at storage in depleted oil and gas fields or saline aquifers in regions where infrastructure is available and government regulations are in the main supportive. Most APAC governments have set ambitious climate-related targets, although often the current goals are not entirely supported by existing plans in place. McKinsey notes that in order to deliver on the climate pledges made, >60% of the world’s future carbon abatement (>3 GT p.a. by 2050) would have to be realised in the APAC region.

Scope

This thematic issue is looking for contributions from all aspects of geoscience, including, but not limited to the research topics below:

1. Laboratory based studies of CO2-rock interaction focussing on short- to long-term effects of CO2 storage on rock properties.
2. Multi-disciplinary field scale studies encompassing reservoir characterisation, injectivity, storage capacity and containment integrity.
3. Advances in modelling approaches including multiphase flow, geomechanics, static and dynamic models, the use of AI/ML and uncertainty analysis.
4. Case studies from pilot studies, demonstration sites or industrial scale storage projects.
5. Geological and techno-economic analysis for CCS Hub sites in the APAC region.
6. Cross industry developments such as manufacture of hydrogen with CCS (Blue Hydrogen) or Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS).
7. Developing cross-border options for storing sources of CO2.
8. Monitoring of onshore/offshore CO2 injection reservoirs.

Submission

Full author guidelines can be found online.

Submission should be made via the Geoenergy Editorial Manager website.

When submitting manuscripts make sure to identify the submission as being for the ‘CCS in the Asia–Pacific region’ collection by selecting it from the ‘Section/Category’ drop-down list.

Submission deadline: 30 April 2025

Submission and publication in Geoenergy is free of charge.

Authors may choose to make their article fully Open Acess (sometimes called ‘Gold Open Access’) upon paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). Full details can be found here.

Guest Editors

• Farhana Jaafar Azuddin (Petronas, Malaysia)
• Lisa Chisholm (Drax, UK)
• David Dewhurst (CSIRO, Australia)
• Takeshi Tsuji (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Vikram Vishal (IIT Bombay, India)

Contact

For any queries contact the Geoenergy journal office.