Regime 04 · Carbon Capture, Utilisation & Storage
A CCUS project is bankable only when its liabilities are.
Capture is, increasingly, solved engineering. What decides whether a project reaches financial close is harder: who carries the decades-long storage liability, whether the MRV regime will satisfy a verifier, and how cross-border CO₂ transport is authorised. Lenders, DFIs and host governments fund certainty about those questions — not optimism about the technology.
The four gates to financial close
Where CCUS projects actually stall.
A capture-ready engineering case is necessary but not sufficient. The project must clear four governance gates, each of which a lender's technical and legal advisers will test independently before committing capital.
Permitting
Storage and transport consents under the EU CCS Directive, UK licensing or the applicable host-state regime.
MRV credibility
A monitoring, reporting and verification design an accredited verifier — and a carbon market — will accept.
Liability allocation
Clear, fundable answers on leakage, closure and post-closure stewardship transfer to the state.
Bankability
The evidence package that lets lenders, DFIs and offtakers price and accept the residual risk.
Who this concerns
Developers, and the capital that funds them.
CCUS developers
Project teams moving from concept to a permitting- and finance-ready proposition.
Oil & gas operators
Groups repurposing depleted fields and subsurface expertise into storage assets.
Investors, lenders & DFIs
Capital providers underwriting decades-long liability and seeking a credible evidence base.
Storage & credit operators
Storage-site operators and carbon-credit developers whose claims rest on MRV integrity.
CCUS instruments
From a permitting roadmap to an investor-grade dossier.
Authored for projects that need to be financed, not just designed. Instant download, transparent sterling pricing.
CCUS Permitting, MRV & Liability Readiness Toolkit
CCUS developers & project teams scoping a bankable pipeline.
- Permitting-stage roadmap
- MRV data-structure workbook
- Verification-evidence index
- Liability-allocation primer
CCUS Bankability & Liability Dossier
Investors, lenders & host governments de-risking CCUS capital.
- Liability-allocation framework
- Bankability evidence structure
- Cross-border CO₂ transport notes
- Investor & lender briefing pack
From toolkit to mandate
Get the liability and MRV story investment-ready.
A CCUS readiness call pressure-tests your permitting, MRV and liability position against what a lender's advisers will ask, and identifies the gaps that most threaten financial close.