CCUS Market Outlook and Trends – H2 2026

Analyze the global CCUS market with capacity forecasts to 2030, project pipelines, regional trends, key players, deals, and policy developments shaping carbon capture and storage.

Why Does the Global CCUS Market Matter?

The global CCUS market is shifting from isolated, subsidy-led pilot projects toward more standardized, integrated, and commercially viable infrastructure. While project development continues, delays, cancellations, policy gaps, and execution risks are influencing the pace of capacity growth.

GlobalData’s CCUS Market Analysis provides a detailed view of the global CCUS landscape, covering capacity growth, project pipelines, regional and country-level developments, carbon capture and storage projects, facility industries, leading owners and contractors, deal activity, and national incentives and policies.

The report helps businesses understand how the CCUS market is developing, where capacity is growing, which sectors are adopting the technology, and how policy and investment conditions are shaping future opportunities.

Key Insights in the Global CCUS Market

The report provides insight into:

• Global CCUS capacity growth and outlook to 2030
• CCUS project development trends
• Active and upcoming CCUS projects
• Regional CCUS capacity
• Leading countries by announced CCUS capacity
• Largest upcoming carbon capture projects
• Largest upcoming carbon storage projects
• Carbon capture adoption across facility industries
• Leading owners of active and upcoming CCS capacity
• Leading CCUS contractors
• CCUS deal activity from 2024 to 2026
• Recent CCUS-related deals
• National CCUS incentives and policies
• Market trends influencing CCUS adoption
• Project delays, cancellations, and execution risks
• The role of power generation and rising electricity demand in future CCUS adoption

Scope

What Will You Learn from This CCUS Market Analysis?

This report provides insight into:

• CCUS capacity outlook through 2030
• Recent CCUS capacity additions
• Global project pipeline and capacity
• Regional capacity trends
• Leading CCUS markets and countries
• Upcoming carbon capture projects
• Upcoming carbon storage projects
• CCUS adoption by facility industry
• Leading project owners
• Leading CCUS contractors
• CCUS deal activity
• Recent market transactions
• National incentives and policy developments
• Project development and adoption patterns
• Key market trends and growth opportunities
• Factors influencing CCUS project execution

Who Should Buy This CCUS Market Analysis?

This report may be valuable for:

• Energy companies
• Oil and gas companies
• Power generation companies
• Carbon capture technology providers
• CCUS project developers
• Engineering and construction companies
• Infrastructure investors
• Private equity investors
• Government and policy organizations
• Technology companies
• Industrial companies
• Utilities
• Strategy teams
• Market intelligence professionals
• Consultants and industry advisors
  

  

How Companies Use This CCUS Market Analysis

Organizations across the energy and industrial value chain can use the report to assess CCUS market development and identify emerging opportunities.

For example:

• Energy companies can assess CCUS capacity growth and identify markets with expanding project pipelines.
• CCUS developers can track upcoming projects and regional opportunities.
• Technology providers can identify sectors and projects driving demand for carbon capture solutions.
• Engineering and construction companies can monitor upcoming projects and leading contractors.
• Investors can assess project pipelines, capacity growth, and market development risks.
• Utilities can understand the growing role of CCUS in power generation.
• Policy teams can monitor national incentives and regulatory developments.
• Strategy teams can assess market trends, competitive dynamics, and future growth opportunities.
• Market intelligence teams can track project announcements, capacity changes, and deal activity.
• Consultants can use market data to support energy transition and CCUS strategy projects.

Key Highlights

Despite delays and cancellations in some areas, 44 projects came online in 2025, adding ~14.8mtpa of capture capacity. While this indicates sector progress, momentum has softened over H1 2026, with only 4 projects reaching completion.

While the overall project pipeline remains large, with GlobalData tracking 806 active and upcoming projects totaling ~930.6mtpa in capacity, this represents a 2.4% contraction versus the market outlook in Q1 2026.

North America remains the leading CCUS region by total pipeline capacity, although that capacity contracted in H1 2026. Total announced capacity declined 5.5% from year-end 2025 to Q2 2026, driven primarily by early-stage attrition, with feasibility capacity down 15% and FEED down 14%.

Even so, later-stage execution has improved, indicating a bifurcated CCUS development landscape. Commissioning capacity rose sharply from 0.5mtpa to 5.7mtpa.

Natural gas processing continues to lead in terms of active CCUS capacity. However, within the upcoming project pipeline, power generation continues to remain the leading sector adopting CCUS, with surging electricity demand, much of it tied to AI and data center load growth.

Reasons to Buy

Benchmark the Global CCUS Market

The report enables users to compare CCUS markets and projects across:

• Capacity
• Project pipeline
• Regional development
• Country-level activity
• Carbon capture projects
• Carbon storage projects
• Facility industries
• Project owners
• Contractors
• Deal activity
• Policy and incentives

This helps businesses identify where CCUS capacity is expanding, which sectors are driving adoption, and where project development and investment opportunities are emerging.

Built on GlobalData Market Intelligence

GlobalData’s CCUS Market Analysis combines project tracking, market intelligence, capacity analysis, deal activity, and policy research to provide a detailed view of the global carbon capture, utilization, and storage landscape.

The analysis tracks active and upcoming projects, regional capacity developments, leading market participants, deal activity, and national incentives to help decision-makers understand both current market conditions and the outlook toward 2030.

Act Now to Identify Opportunities in the Global CCUS Market

The CCUS market is entering a more commercially focused phase, with growing emphasis on integrated infrastructure, project execution, policy support, and sector-specific adoption.

Use GlobalData’s CCUS Market Analysis to assess capacity growth, track project pipelines, identify leading markets and players, monitor deal activity, and understand the policy and investment factors shaping opportunities across the global CCUS industry.