Just under a month ago, the Port of Aalborg entered into an agreement with Fidelis New Energy to establish Denmark's first large-scale facility for handling captured CO2 at the port. Now, Fidelis has entered into a letter of intent with Aalborg Portland regarding the future use of the planned facility.
Norne Carbon Storage Hub, as Fidelis' future facility is called, will, if the letter of intent is implemented, be connected to Aalborg Portland by a direct pipeline connection by 2030. Via the pipeline, the cement producer will potentially be able to deliver more than 400,000 tons of CO2 to Fidelis' future facility.
Aalborg Portland sees the agreement as "an important step towards the realization of Danish cement production with a lower CO2 footprint." Fidelis is also pleased with the agreement.
- We are excited to be able to deliver a safe and cost-effective solution that will contribute to reducing CO2 emissions from cement production at Aalborg Portland, Denmark's only cement producer, says Ulrik Weuder, CEO of Fidelis New Energy Europe, in a press release.
Great potential
Aalborg Portland is expected to capture at least 400,000 tons of CO2 per year from their production in Aalborg by 2030. The agreement with Fidelis is seen by the cement producer as a step towards the ambition of producing cement with one of the world's lowest CO2 footprints.
- We have followed Fidelis' plans to build Denmark's first large-scale CO2 handling plant at the Port of Aalborg with great interest. Carbon capture plays a central role in Aalborg Portland's transformation process, where we have a goal of capturing a minimum of 400,000 tons of CO2 per year by 2030, but we are also aiming even higher. Fidelis' plant is planned to be established a few kilometers from Aalborg Portland, which is why this statement of intent makes a lot of sense, says Michael Lundgaard Thomsen, CCO at Aalborg Portland.
On May 15, 2023, Fidelis announced plans to establish the Norne Carbon Storage Hub, an onshore CO2 storage network in Denmark with facilities in both Aalborg and Kalundborg. In this connection, Fidelis and the Port of Aalborg entered into an agreement to establish Denmark's first large-scale plant for handling captured CO2. The facility will be located at the East Port of Aalborg, close to Aalborg Portland, and from 2026 it is expected to receive up to 4 million tons of greenhouse gases annually with the possibility of doubling the capacity in the future.
- It is fantastic that Fidelis and Aalborg Portland are joining forces on CO2 capture and storage in Aalborg. This is yet another confirmation that we are on our way to becoming a pioneer area for handling captured CO2 on European soil. We have the leading research environments via Aalborg University and a business community with representatives from the entire value chain - from capture, to storage and not least the utilization of CO2 for the green energy sources of the future, says Kristian Thulesen Dahl, CEO at Port of Aalborg.
Fidelis and Port of Aalborg also expect that up to 200 ships per year will arrive at the Port of Aalborg with imported CO2 from emission sources at home and abroad
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