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) mission, stated to be one of the crucial bold on the earth.
Introduced on 25 August, these first CO2 volumes have been transported by ship from Heidelberg Supplies’ cement manufacturing unit in Brevik, Norway to the Northern Lights’ Øygarden facility, the onshore receiving, processing, and storage hub for the Longship CCS mission, close to Bergen. From there, they have been injected 2,600 meters beneath 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 by way of 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/yr at Heidelberg Supplies’ cement plant in Brevik, and 350,000 t CO2/yr from the deliberate facility at Hafslund Celsio’s waste-to-energy plant in Oslo.
Northern Lights is answerable 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 section of the mission goals to retailer 1.5 Mt CO2/yr, capability that has already been absolutely booked. A growth plan for section 2 has been permitted by the Norwegian Ministry of Power, and this can improve the capability to over 5 Mt CO2/yr, making Longship a key part of Europe’s local weather technique, in response to the mission companions.
One distinguishing characteristic of the mission is its seemingly world-first try to combine all the CCS worth chain, encompassing CO2 seize, transport and storage. It’s also described because the world’s first service provider CO2 transportation and storage mission.
