Power plants are rarely located near a suitable underground storage facility, so captured CO₂ must be transported to such a facility. Trucks or ships are suitable for transportation of small amounts or over long distances. But because power plants will continually capture large amounts of CO₂, it makes economic and environmental sense to use pipelines to transport CO₂. To reduce its volume, CO₂ will be compressed (which will require additional energy) and piped to the storage facility in a highly dense, liquid-like form.

Pipelines for transporting CO₂, which are similar to natural gas pipelines, will have to be planned, approved by regulators, and built in order to create a carbon transport infrastructure.

Pipeline carbon transport is a proven technology. CO₂ pipelines stretching several thousand kilometers have been in operation in the United States for some time.