The Danish Energy Agency has granted permission for a full-scale CO2 storage facility in Denmark for the first time. The parties behind the Greensand Future project have been approved to store CO2 in the Nini West field in the Danish part of the North Sea for the next 30 years. The Danish Energy Agency announced this in a press release.
The permit applies to the storage of up to 2.4 million tonnes of CO2 and is granted to INEOS E&P, Harbour Energy and Nordsøfonden, which is behind Greensand Future. The Nini West field is located about 240 kilometres northwest of Esbjerg.
- It is a significant milestone that we will now have the first CO2 storage facility in Denmark. Storage facilities are a crucial part of the value chain for CO2 capture and storage. We will only benefit the climate when the CO2 is stored and removed from the atmosphere. Therefore, the permit for the first CO2 storage facility in Denmark is a very important step towards establishing a market for CCS and thus creating the conditions for reaping the major climate benefits that CO2 capture and storage can contribute to, says Peter Christian Baggesgaard Hansen, Deputy Director General of the Danish Energy Agency.
Greensand Future expects the storage facility to be operational in mid-2026. This will make it not only the first full-scale CO2 storage facility in Denmark, but also the first of its kind in the EU.
The project builds on a previous test, where in December 2022, permission was granted to inject and store up to 15,000 tons of CO2 in Nini West. On March 8, 2023, CO2 was injected on the Danish shelf for the first time. The CO2 is stored 1700-1800 meters below the seabed in a sandstone reservoir with dense rocks above.
The Nini West field has previously been used for oil and gas production, and the existing facility, Nini-A, is now being reused for CO2 storage.
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