Driving Carbon Reduction Through CCUS Technologies
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) is an essential climate solution for decarbonizing industry and reducing or removing CO2 emissions from industrial processes.
What is CCUS?
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) refers to the full value chain of managing carbon dioxide: from capturing CO₂ at industrial or energy facilities, to transporting it, to either recycling it into carbon-based products or safely and permanently storing it in deep geological formations.
Our Approach
At TotalEnergies, we prioritize avoiding emissions first, then reducing them by systematically developing and deploying the best available technologies across each of our assets. For our residual emissions and those of our customers, the Company is advancing large-scale industrial projects for carbon storage.
Decarbonizing our Texas Gulf Coast operations
In the U.S., TotalEnergies holds a 25% stake in the Bayou Bend CCS project, a large-scale carbon storage initiative along the Texas Gulf Coast designed to store hundreds of millions of tons of CO₂. Strategically located near our Port Arthur refinery and our petrochemicals facilities in La Porte, Bayou Bend will play a key role in lowering direct emissions from our U.S. operations and advancing our long term decarbonization strategy.
The Power of Collaboration
To accelerate CCUS innovation, TotalEnergies collaborates with best-in-class partners, including tech start-ups, academic and research institutions as well as industrial clients worldwide. In Houston, Texas, our CO₂ Techno Hub is identifying, evaluating, and accelerating solutions for CO₂ capture, transport, storage and utilization across our operations. It offers tailored collaboration models to accelerate technology deployment at scale. The Techno Hub’s key focus areas include:
Carbon Capture
- Point Source Capture Technologies
- Direct Air Capture
- Reactive Capture
Carbon Transport & Storage
- CO2 impurity management
- Monitoring & Integrity
- New development design
- New subsurface storage
Carbon Utilization
- CO2 mineralized products
- E-fuels
- Other CO2 derived molecules
Through partnerships with leading ClimateTech innovators such as Greentown Labs and participation in programs like the Carbon to Value Initiative, the CO2 Techno Hub is leveraging the strength of the U.S. innovation ecosystem to accelerate next-generation carbon solutions.
Innovate with us to accelerate the next wave of technologies!
At TotalEnergies, we are advancing technologies and partnerships that make large‑scale CO₂ reduction possible today—not decades from now.