Gassnova, the Norwegian state enterprise for carbon capture and storage (CCS) has assigned Statoil, the multinational oil and gas company, to evaluate the development of CCS on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).
The storage project is part of Norwegian authorities’ efforts to develop full-scale CCS in Norway. It will be the first storage site in the world to receive carbon dioxide (CO2) from several industrial sources and will capture CO2 from three onshore industrial facilities in Eastern Norway. The CO2 will then be transported by ship from the capture area to a receiving plant onshore located on the west-coast of Norway.
At the receiving plant, CO2 will be pumped over from the ship to onshore tanks, prior to being sent through pipelines on the seabed to several injection wells east of the Troll field on the NCS. These are several possible locations for the receiving plant, and the final choice will be based on criteria such as safety, costs and expansion flexibility.
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