The Northern Lights carbon, seize and storage (CCS) undertaking in Norway, equally owned by Equinor ASA, Shell PLC and TotalEnergies SE, has injected its first carbon dioxide (CO2) volumes.
The captured emissions got here from Heidelberg Supplies’ cement manufacturing facility in Brevik. The CO2 was transported by vessel and injected 2,600 meters (8,530.18 toes) beneath the seabed 100 kilometers (62.14 miles) off the coast of Western Norway, based on the house owners.
This launched operations for part I, whose capability of 1.5 million tonnes every year (MMtpa) of CO2 has been totally booked.
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“The world’s first third-party CO2 transport and storage facility is now in operation, contributing to decreasing European greenhouse gasoline emissions”, Norway’s majority state-owned Equinor stated in a press release Monday.
“Lifting new worth chains like CO2 seize, transport and storage requires collaboration and energy throughout the worth chain – from governments, business and clients. With Northern Lights in operation, now we have confirmed that that is doable”, stated Irene Rummelhoff, govt vp for advertising, midstream and processing at Equinor.
“Now, we sit up for main secure and environment friendly operations on behalf of the Northern Lights partnership and use this as a stepping stone for the additional improvement of CCS in Europe”.
Equinor targets a CO2 transport and storage capability of 30-50 MMtpa by 2035.
France’s TotalEnergies stated individually, “The event of CO2 transport and storage providers is likely one of the mandatory levers for decreasing emissions for European business”.
Moreover Heidelberg Supplies, clients embody Hafslund Celsio in Norway, Orsted in Denmark, Stockholm Exergi in Sweden and Yara within the Netherlands.
In March the Northern Lights house owners authorised the second part with a NOK 7.5 billion ($741.36 million) funding.
Section II will elevate Northern Lights’ capability to over 5 MMtpa. The enlargement will leverage present onshore and offshore infrastructures and set up new onshore storage tanks, pumps, a jetty and injection wells, in addition to fee new transport vessels. The companions count on to place part II into service 2028.
“Northern Lights is in superior discussions with a number of giant European industrial clients to market the remaining storage capability”, TotalEnergies stated March.
Equinor stated Monday, “The event of part II with Equinor as TSP is effectively underway, with the supply of 9 new CO2 storage tanks on the Oygarden web site this summer time”.
Northern Lights kinds the transport and storage a part of the Longship CCS undertaking launched September 2020 by the Norwegian authorities to display the seize of CO2 from industrial emitters for secure transport and storage. CO2 is to be captured on the Heidelberg Supplies cement manufacturing facility and a Hafslund Celsio waste incineration plant, then liquefied and picked up by ships. The captured emissions are to be transported to an intermediate storage facility onshore Oygarden, earlier than being pumped by pipes into the Norwegian continental shelf, based on Equinor.
It took about three months for the inaugural operation, from transport to injection, to be accomplished. The primary CO2 cargo was transported to Oygarden early June, as introduced by the Norwegian authorities.
About 80 % of the associated fee for constructing part I has been funded by the Norwegian state, whereas part II has secured EUR 131 million ($152.52 million) from the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility. The EU funding counts towards the overall part II funding of NOK 7.5 billion.
Equinor stays the technical service supplier for part II and might be liable for its building and operation, based on the corporate.
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