Grounded in Australian and European precedent. Calibrated to India.
CCUS strategy in India cannot be copied from a global template. India's coal quality, water availability, grid economics, industrial cluster geography, regulatory timeline, and financing constraints are fundamentally different from the conditions that shaped Australia's Gorgon project or Norway's Northern Lights infrastructure. Yet the underlying strategic logic — identifying the right technologies for the right sectors at the right cost — is the same.
NCM's Strategy & Advisory service translates two decades of global CCUS precedent into roadmaps that are technically sound, financially viable, and politically deliverable in the Indian context. We have supported NITI Aayog engagements, corporate Net Zero commitments for major PSUs, and sector-level CBAM exposure assessments for steel and cement exporters — always with the same discipline: no recommendation is made without a credible cost-benefit analysis grounded in Indian market data.
Our strategic engagements are led by advisers who have held equivalent roles at the Global CCS Institute in Australia, the UK's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and India's own NITI Aayog advisory programmes. This is not strategy by analogy — it is strategy by experience.
A strategy engagement with NCM typically begins with a two-week rapid diagnostic — reviewing your current emissions baseline, export exposure, existing decarbonisation commitments, and competitive position relative to peers who have already begun CCUS planning. This diagnostic produces a Priority Action Matrix that ranks CCUS options by cost, feasibility, regulatory timeline, and strategic value.
The strategy phase then develops this into a full CCUS Pathway Document: technology options at a pre-feasibility level, storage corridor identification, finance mechanism alignment, stakeholder engagement plan, and a phased implementation timeline with clear decision gates. This document is designed to be board-ready, investor-ready, and regulator-ready from day one.
For government and PSU clients, strategy engagements are structured to align with NITI Aayog reporting cycles, BEE carbon market compliance timelines, and the Ministry of Environment's emerging CCUS regulatory framework — ensuring that the strategy is not only technically sound but politically deliverable.
Weeks for initial rapid diagnostic and Priority Action Matrix
Weeks for full CCUS Pathway Document with implementation roadmap
Conflict-free — no technology vendor relationships, no commission arrangements
Deliverable formats — board deck, technical report, and regulatory submission
Whether you are a government body seeking policy advice, an industrial company facing CBAM exposure, or an investor seeking CCUS project opportunities — our team is ready to engage.