Enhance Energy, a Canadian carbon management company, has begun construction of the Origins Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Hub near Clive in Alberta, Canada.
The site is expected to become one of Canada’s largest facilities for permanent underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO₂).
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The Origins CCS Hub is scheduled to begin operations in January 2027 and aims to store up to 1.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of CO₂, with provisions for capacity increases in the future.
The project has received two $3.6m (C$5m) grants from Natural Resources Canada’s Energy Innovation Program. The Government of Alberta has designated it as an approved carbon sequestration hub.
It forms part of Canada’s ongoing effort to reduce industrial emissions and move towards national net-zero targets by 2050.
The project’s development is taking place in a regulatory and investment environment shaped by a recent memorandum of understanding between federal and provincial governments.
The facility will be constructed using Canadian steel and connected to Alberta’s CO₂ pipeline network, which supports large-scale carbon management.
At the outset, the Origins CCS Hub will store emissions from heavy industries including oil and gas, cement, petrochemicals, power generation and hydrogen production, primarily sourced from Alberta’s industrial heartland.
In due course, it may connect to other major emitters or sites for CO₂ removals in central and southern Alberta, targeting hard-to-abate sectors along the Edmonton-Calgary Corridor.
According to Enhance Energy, the company’s existing Clive CO₂ Sequestration Facility has so far stored more than nine million tonnes of CO₂ and facilitated over C$800m in carbon credit value.
The company reports that these activities have produced C$586m in economic impacts and supported more than C$1bn of investment in Alberta’s CCS value chain.
Canada Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said: “We promised Canadians we would leverage our abundant energy resources to be an energy superpower – and that we would do it in an environmentally responsible way that we could be proud of.
“Projects like the Origins CCS Hub are doing exactly that: strengthening Canada’s energy sector, creating jobs and attracting investment, all while growing our way to net zero by 2050.”
Canada has significant geological storage capacity for CO₂ and hosts major transportation infrastructure such as the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line.
Federal incentives including the Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage Investment Tax Credit, are set to continue supporting CCS developments as part of long-term energy and industrial strategy.
