"The G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit Leaders Declaration in July 2008 said "We strongly support the launching of large-scale CCS demonstration project (omission) with a view to beginning the broad deployment of CCS by 2020." In Japan, we have been conducting geological investigations at domestic candidate sites from FY 2008 so as to implement a demonstration project toward practical use of CCS in an early stage.
"For offshore Tomakomai, one of the candidate sites, our investigation was completed in June 2011. The adequacy of the results was checked at "Specialist Conference toward Implementation of a CCS Demonstration Project" comprised of outside experts. We have just compiled and announced "General Evaluation of Storage Layer at the Tomakomai Site and Evaluation of the Demonstration Project Program (Draft)" (*)
"Based on the evaluation results obtained from the Specialist Conference, we decided to implement CCS demonstration project at the Tomakomai site. In order to launch design, construction and other steps in FY 2012, we are calling for public application of constructors to the project to choose an appropriate contractor."
(Source: http://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2012/0208_02.html)
Japan CCS Co., Ltd. "was commissioned to execute this CCS demonstration project for the first four years from April 2012 until March 2016 before actual CO2 injection. In this period, two major facilities will be newly designed and constructed by March 2016; CO2 gas compression & CO2 capture facility, CO2 compression and injection facility. These facilities are located near by a petroleum refinery plant."
(Source: http://www.japanccs.com/en/business/demonstration/index.php)