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Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) as ais a viable mitigation strategy for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in fossil-fuel power plants. Although CCS technology can mitigate the anthropogenic GHG emissions, the technologies are associated with additional water requirements for chemical and physical processes to capture and separate CO2 and other environmental impacts like introduction of parasitic loads imposed by carbon capture on power plants hence reduced efficiency and more cooling requirements and groundwater contamination due to CO2 leakage during geologic sequestration. The energy transition requires the decarbonizing of the power, transport, and industry sectors. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies will play a major role in this energy transition by cutting down emissions from new fossil fuel power plants. Main challenges facing the CCS and CCU include low oil price to make CO2-enhanced oil recovery profitable, lack of financial incentives for CO2 geological storage, limited acceptance, lack facilitating government policy and CCS regulations, and high capital investment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]