The primary captured CO₂ has been injected into the subsea reservoir – 100km off the west coast of Norway – getting used for Longship, the Norwegian government-backed carbon seize and storage (CCS) challenge, mentioned to be probably the most formidable on the earth.
Introduced on 25 August, these first CO2 volumes had been transported by ship from Heidelberg Supplies’ cement manufacturing facility in Brevik, Norway to the Northern Lights’ Øygarden facility, the onshore receiving, processing, and storage hub for the Longship CCS challenge, close to Bergen. From there, they had been injected 2,600 meters under the seabed into the Aurora reservoir, situated 100km off the coast.
The CO2 is first liquified at Øygarden, earlier than being pumped at excessive strain via a subsea pipeline to the storage vacation spot, a porous sandstone rock formation able to holding CO2 whereas it’s step by step mineralised, turning into a part of the rock formation.
Quantity storage of CO2 within the Aurora reservoir is scheduled to start in 2029, beginning with the seize of 400,000 t CO2/12 months at Heidelberg Supplies’ cement plant in Brevik, and 350,000 t CO2/12 months from the deliberate facility at Hafslund Celsio’s waste-to-energy plant in Oslo.
Northern Lights is liable for operating the Øygarden facility. The group, a three way partnership between Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies, has signed industrial agreements with industrial and vitality firms within the surrounding area, together with Yara (Netherlands), Ørsted (Denmark) and Stockholm Exergi (Sweden).
The primary part of the challenge goals to retailer 1.5 Mt CO2/12 months, capability that has already been absolutely booked. A improvement plan for part 2 has been accredited by the Norwegian Ministry of Vitality, and it will improve the capability to over 5 Mt CO2/12 months, making Longship a key part of Europe’s local weather technique, in keeping with the challenge companions.
One distinguishing characteristic of the challenge is its seemingly world-first try to combine the complete CCS worth chain, encompassing CO2 seize, transport and storage. It is usually described because the world’s first service provider CO2 transportation and storage challenge.