CCS ship and drilling rig leave Esbjerg this week :
Christian Kirkegaard Christensen leads work that will contribute to the 2030 climate goals
While Blue Water's ship PSV Aurora Storm is installing the reinforcement so that CO2 can be transported safely from Antwerp to the Nini field in the Danish part of the North Sea, the drilling rig Noble Resolve is also located nearby in Esbjerg's northern port at Dogger Quay. The rig is about to have the pipes and pump installed that will pump the CO2 into the Nini field.
Semco Maritime's Greensand project manager Christian Kirkegaard Christensen is leading the preparatory work.
- Our people have been working 12 hours a day since November. They are blacksmiths, electricians and instrument technicians, explains Christian Kirkegaard Christensen about the professional groups that Semco has had to work on the task.
Instrument technicians are a superstructure of the electrician training. One factor has made the work easier.
- It has been great that we have Staget so close, so that we have been able to draw on more people as needed, says the project manager about Semco Maritime's own shipyard, which is located a few hundred meters away from both PSV Aurora Storm and Noble Resolve.
The CO2 that is to be pumped underground must first be pumped from the ship onto the drilling rig, where it must be heated before being pumped. That is why a pipeline has been laid on Noble Resolve, and this is, among other things, the one that Semco is working with.
- We have had external insulation put on the pipe, because then the pipes can be sent to ordinary metal scrap. That would not have been possible with insulated pipes. At the same time, we have rented as much as possible so that it can be used again, says Christian Kirkegaard Christensen, while showing the enormous cable hose that will transport the CO2 from the ship to the rig.
It will also be able to find another use when the work is completed.
Depending on the weather conditions, Noble Resolve will begin to be pulled out on December 14 or 15, so that it will be ready to pump the first CO2 into the underground immediately after Christmas.
The plan is that the first CO2 will be pumped into the Danish underground between Christmas and New Year. This will take place as part of Project Greensand, which has 23 different partners. CCS or Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is part of Denmark's 2030 climate goals. Without CCS, it will not be possible to reduce CO2 emissions sufficiently by 2030.
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