Storage of CO2 is likely to be a significant part of the solution to climate challenges, and now Ineos Energy, Wintershall DEA, Port of Hirtshals, Biocarb Solution, Evida, Blue Water Shipping and Greenport North are taking a major step towards the realization of a visionary project.
The partners have today entered into an agreement to investigate the possibility of establishing transport of CO2 from biogas plants in North Jutland, temporary storage facilities at the Port of Hirtshals and shipping to the North Sea, where the CO2 is pumped underground.
The project, which goes by the name Greenport Scandinavia, thus involves the entire value chain for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), the Port of Hirtshals states in a statement.
Negative emissions
The project is the first of its kind in Denmark, and since it concerns biogenic CO2, negative emissions will be achieved, which can make a significant contribution to achieving the Danish climate goals of a 70 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
- Biogas has great potential in terms of displacing fossil fuels, and by storing the biogenic CO2 we can even achieve negative emissions. Since, among other things, manure from livestock farming is included in the production, by combining biogas production with CO2 storage we can also avoid a number of emissions from agriculture, says Director Carsten Joest Nielsen from Biocarb Solution.
Initially, the goal is to capture up to 100,000 tons of biogenic CO2 annually from biogas plants in North Jutland as early as 2024/25. The CO2 is transported to the Port of Hirtshals and by ship to the Siri area in the Danish part of the North Sea, where it is stored in empty oil fields through the Greensand project.
Hirtshals as Europe's largest hub for CO2 storage?
In the long term, however, the ambitions for the Port of Hirtshals are even greater. The parties thus hope to be able to increase the amount of CO2 transported and stored significantly over time and establish Europe's largest hub for CO2 storage and shipping to fields in the North Sea based in the Port of Hirtshals.
The partners behind the agreement will investigate the possibility of establishing the necessary infrastructure in the form of, for example, pipelines for transporting CO2 from Denmark and other parts of Europe to Hirtshals.
- We at INEOS are very far along with our CO2 storage project Greensand, where immediately after the turn of the year we will place the first CO2 in the Danish underground as part of our pilot demonstration project. It is therefore quite natural that we are now looking at how we can create a value chain for the capture, transport and storage of CO2 in Denmark, says Mads Weng Gade, Country Manager at Ineos Energy Denmark.
Director of the Port of Hirtshals, Per Holm Nørgaard also points out that the port's expansion plans make it obvious to store and ship CO2 from Hirtshals.
- We are already working purposefully on plans to expand the Port of Hirtshals, and in this regard, storing and shipping CO2 to the North Sea fits perfectly into our strategy. In the long term, the establishment of a CO2 hub in Hirtshals can contribute to solving climate challenges, and we see great potential in the cooperation we have entered into with the other partners, says Director Per Holm Nørgaard from the Port of Hirtshals.
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