Ineos and Royal Wagenborg have launched and named the first offshore CO2 ship built in Europe on Wednesday. The ship, Carbon Destroyer 1, will transport captured CO2 from Esbjerg to underground storage at the Nini West platform in the Danish part of the North Sea.
The ship was named by Lady Catherine Ratcliffe at a ceremony at the Royal Niestern Sander shipyard in the Netherlands and is expected to be operational by the end of 2025 or early 2026 – at the same time that Project Greensand starts permanent storage of CO2.
Carbon Destroyer 1 is based on Wagenborg's EasyMax design and built to transport CO2 under pressure and at low temperatures. The ship is the result of a close collaboration between Ineos Energy and Royal Wagenborg and represents a milestone in Project Greensand, which will make Denmark a European hub for CO2 storage.
- Carbon Destroyer 1 will transport captured CO2 from across Europe and create a virtual pipeline between the capture sites and the permanent storage deep under the seabed in the North Sea. We are now building the first dedicated offshore CO2 ship, which is a prerequisite for commercial CCS across Europe, says Mads Weng Gade, CEO of Ineos Energy Europe, in a statement.
A new CO2 terminal in Esbjerg is under construction and will become the land-based hub for handling and loading liquid CO2 for Carbon Destroyer 1. The terminal will consist of six storage tanks and will initially receive CO2 from Danish biogas plants. From here, the CO2 is shipped for storage in the Nini West reservoir, over 1,800 meters below the seabed.
The companies behind Project Greensand are Ineos Energy Denmark, Harbour Energy and Nordsøfonden
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