Southeast Asia · Case study

bp Indonesia, Tangguh UCC Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage at an LNG Export Facility

Tangguh LNG, Bintuni Bay, Papua Barat, Indonesia2025 to 2028 (construction; production from Ubadari expected in 2028)

Tangguh LNG is a unitized development of six gas fields in the Wiriagar, Berau and Bintuni Bay areas of Papua Barat (bp Indonesia, n.d.b). It is operated by BP Berau Ltd., runs three LNG trains with a design capacity of 11.4 million tons per year, and started production in 2009 (bp Indonesia, n.d.a). The Tangguh Ubadari, CCUS, Compression (UCC) project adds carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) to this existing LNG export facility (bp Indonesia, 2025a).

Approach

Build on existing infrastructure. The UCC project combines development of the Ubadari gas field, enhanced gas recovery (EGR) through CCUS, and onshore compression. It expands and uses existing infrastructure at the Tangguh LNG facility (bp Indonesia, 2025a).

Store the facility's own CO2. The project has potential to sequester around 15 million tonnes of CO2 from Tangguh's emissions in its initial phase (bp Indonesia, 2026). This is a total for the initial phase, not an annual capture rate.

National priority status. The project is a National Strategic Project of Indonesia and aims to be the first CCUS project developed at scale in the country (bp Indonesia, 2025c).

Carbon accounting and crediting. bp and Mitsubishi Research Institute were selected under a program commissioned by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to study a CCUS methodology under the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM). The study covers carbon accounting and monitoring and reporting of CCUS and EGR, and a method that could apply to future domestic CO2 injected into Tangguh CCUS (bp Indonesia, 2025b).

Local supply chain. The project has a 45 percent local content commitment. Offshore jackets and topsides are fabricated in Karimun, modules in Bintan and Batam, and offshore line pipes are coated in East Java (bp Indonesia, 2026).

Results

Steel cutting for the project platform began in July 2025 (bp Indonesia, 2025a). The first of four platform jackets was completed in May 2026 (bp Indonesia, 2026). Production from the Ubadari field is expected to start in 2028 (bp Indonesia, 2025a). The cited sources do not establish any measured storage outcome. The 2028 date refers to Ubadari gas production, not CCUS commissioning.

Transferability

Marine terminals in DMCs that serve gas processing, LNG or other large point sources can use this case to see how CCUS can be added to an existing facility rather than built from scratch. Useful steps are to store the facility's own emissions first, seek national strategic status, plan carbon accounting and monitoring early, and build local fabrication capacity. The project is still under construction, so results should be tracked before it is treated as proven. Storage linked to enhanced gas recovery should be assessed within a clear net-emissions boundary and not presented as carbon removal.

Sources

All information used for this case study was based on publicly available resources.