On Thursday, the Danish Energy Agency gave the green light for a full-scale CO2 storage facility in Denmark for the first time. The approval means that the Greensand Future project can now store CO2 in the Nini West field in the Danish part of the North Sea for the next 30 years.
The approval is not surprising for INEOS Energy, which is the operator of the project and thus primarily responsible for operating and developing the CO2 storage facility, which the company is developing in collaboration with Harbour Energy and the North Sea Fund. Ineos emphasizes that the permit marks an important step in the work to make CO2 storage a central part of Denmark's and the EU's climate solutions.
- We are of course pleased with the approval from the Danish Energy Agency. It is an important milestone that we have been working towards. We are continuing our work unwaveringly – a dedicated CO2 transport ship is being built in the Netherlands, and at the Port of Esbjerg we are constructing a CO2 terminal so that we can start storage in mid-2026. Greensand will not only be Denmark’s first CO2 storage facility – it will also be the EU’s first full-scale offshore CO2 storage facility. Greensand is now showing that it can be done. So now we need to start capturing CO2 in Europe, as CCS will be an important part of Denmark’s and the EU’s climate solutions, says Mads Gade, CEO of INEOS Energy Europe.
The permit for Greensand Future includes the storage of up to 2.4 million tonnes of CO2 annually in the Nini West field, which is located about 240 kilometres northwest of Esbjerg. The CO2 is stored approximately 1,700 meters below the seabed in a sandstone reservoir that has previously been used for oil and gas production.
Greensand Future builds on a test phase, where CO2 was injected for the first time on the Danish shelf in 2023. When storage begins in 2026, Greensand will be both Denmark's first CO2 storage facility and the first full-scale offshore storage facility in the EU.
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