The current state-of-the-art.

Hazards, risks and opportunities.

Society struggles to encapsulate and articulate the biggest revolution of our time with clunky buzzword phrases such as 'The Second Machine Age', 'The New Digital Industrial Revolution' and 'Industry Revision 4.0'. Perhaps this is because 'digitalisation' is becoming so extensive, pervasive and ubiquitous, it has the potential to effect almost everything, everywhere. So what is it and what does it mean for the high hazard industries?

CCS, or Carbon Capture and Storage, is a technology that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) from the burning of coal and gas for power generation or other industrial uses, and transports it by either pipeline or ship for safe and permanent underground storage.