44.01 has started injecting CO₂ at its scaled-up carbon storage site in Fujairah, UAE marking a major step towards delivering cost-effective, permanent in-situ mineralisation at scale.

44.01 has scaled up the CO₂ storage capacity and capability at the site of its XPRIZE X-Factor award-winning Project Hajar. The upgraded project will provide safe, permanent local storage for CO₂ from hard-to-abate industries, direct air capture (DAC) facilities and biogenic sources.

The company’s single borehole has an estimated CO₂ capacity of 25,000 tons per year and 44.01 intends to inject up to 20 tonnes of CO₂ per day with its upgraded injection system – representing a tenfold increase from the XPRIZE winning project. The site’s operations are powered 100% by renewable energy, with a biodiesel generator available as backup.

The upgraded project was completed in cooperation with the Fujairah Natural Resources Corporation (FNRC) and Fujairah Environmental Authority (FEA), whose support has been key to advancing the project and helping accelerate climate-tech deployment in the region.

“This is an important milestone to show in-situ mineralisation can scale — and that we can deliver real solutions to customers wanting to decarbonise,” said Talal Hasan, CEO of 44.01. “The project is a successful continuation of our scale-up roadmap to demonstrate our technological capability, whilst storing CO₂ from a range of suppliers safely and permanently and improving costs. To meet climate goals, we need more CO₂ stored safely and permanently, and scaling projects like these is how we will get there.”

“FNRC’s support for 44.01’s project in the Emirate of Fujairah reflects our commitment to enabling and adopting innovative technologies within the natural resources sector, in a way that contributes to the UAE’s efforts to achieve its Net Zero 2050 targets,” said H.E. Eng. Ali Mohammed Qasim, Director General of the FNRC. “The project represents a successful model of collaboration between government entities and the private sector in developing sustainable solutions for the permanent storage of CO₂. It also strengthens Fujairah’s position as a key hub for deploying advanced climate technologies at both the regional and global levels.”

“The carbon storage project in the Emirate of Fujairah represents a qualitative leap in the green transition, strengthening sustainable development objectives and supporting the UAE’s Net Zero 2050 strategy,” said H.E. Aseela Al Mualla, Director of the FEA.

Al Mualla added: “The Emirate of Fujairah offers a fertile environment for such transformative projects, which create opportunities from nature and encourage their responsible use through well-designed, investment-supportive frameworks. Fujairah has become a leading model for green projects that contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of the industrial sector in the Emirate, while ensuring facilities’ compliance with the policies and requirements set by the Fujairah Environmental Authority.”

The Fujairah project continues to generate essential data on techno-economics, injection performance and long-term storage validation — insights that will guide 44.01’s future commercial-scale projects across key global markets. This growing dataset also strengthens the company’s international expansion plans and confirms the technical readiness of in-situ mineralisation as a global climate solution.

By increasing capacity and proving reliable field delivery, the project supports the region’s net-zero goals and helps lay the groundwork for scalable, permanent carbon storage.

About 44.01

44.01 eliminates CO₂ by turning it into rock underground. The company’s award-winning technology accelerates the natural process of CO₂ mineralisation to remove CO₂ permanently in years. 44.01 takes CO₂ captured from the atmosphere, biogenic sources or hard-to-abate industrial processes, helping decarbonise vital industries and ultimately return the atmosphere to sustainable levels of CO₂. The process is safe, scalable and lasts forever.