Gigablue Announces Largest Ocean Carbon Removal Agreement with SkiesFifty

Source: www.gulfoilandgas.com 1/14/2025, Location: North America

Gigablue, a provider of scalable, affordable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, announced today that it has signed an agreement with SkiesFifty, a company dedicated to sustainability in the aviation industry, for the sequestration of 200,000 tons of CO2 over the next four years.

Building on their July 2024 partnership, SkiesFifty is deepening its relationship with Gigablue through a strategic investment in marine-based carbon removal. This agreement for 200,000 carbon credits over four years aligns with SkiesFifty’s mission to invest in scalable solutions for aviation’s net-zero goals.

"The agreement validates the scalability and effectiveness of our technology," said Ori Shaashua, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Gigablue. "We are harnessing the basic building blocks of life on Earth – water and sunlight – to create a financially sustainable carbon removal solution. This will be the largest marine carbon dioxide removal offtake agreement to date and proves our technology's viability in the market.”

Carbon offsets are an integral part of the decarbonization strategy put forward by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The industry is increasingly looking to carbon removal solutions because of the widening gap between the supply of sustainable aviation fuel and industry demand, as detailed in a recent report from McKinsey & Co.

Gigablue’s groundbreaking technology offers a new, affordable pathway to scale permanent carbon removal solutions leveraging the oceans. It relies on marine carbon fixation and sequestration (MCFS) method to offer the lowest-cost route to sequestering carbon with innovative biogeochemistry. The announcement, coupled with a growing pipeline of offtake agreements set to be announced in the coming months, puts Gigablue on a path to remove a gigaton of carbon dioxide by 2035.

At the heart of Gigablue’s carbon removal solution is a novel substrate consisting of a contained nutrient shell and a gravity-controlling core that acts as the optimal environment for local phytoplankton to grow and thrive.

Once the phytoplankton multiply and reach a sufficient amount, the controlled sinking trigger activates, and the substrate, together with the attached carbon, sinks to the bottom of the ocean for permanent storage. Using nothing more than sunlight, water, and gravity, Gigablue can safely and efficiently store carbon dioxide at a gigaton scale.

This industrial-scale agreement demonstrates the growing confidence in ocean-based carbon removal solutions and their crucial role in achieving the scale needed for global net-zero goals. Both the United States and the European Union are developing frameworks for validating the measurement, reporting, and verification of marine-based carbon offsets.

"At SkiesFifty, we invest in the technologies that will make a difference to a carbon-neutral future for aviation,” said Simon Talling-Smith, Founding Partner at SkiesFifty. “We are constantly evaluating projects and we were deeply impressed by Gigablue’s ocean-based CDR solution. It stood out due to its combination of environmental safety, durability, scalability, and robust scientific measurement. We believe CDR will be an important part of the portfolio of solutions that will lead us to net-zero for aviation by 2050.”

The company's proprietary oceanographic platform integrates hundreds of geoinformation data points using artificial intelligence to identify optimal deployment zones and predict the most effective substrate particle compositions.

Gigablue’s MMRV framework, reviewed by New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), ensures reliable and measurable carbon sequestration while supporting marine ecosystems.

“Climate change is a crushingly urgent problem for society,” said NIWA Chief Scientist – Oceans, Mike Williams. “The expertise and the work that NIWA is doing on this problem can be used to support global action.”


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