INEOS E&P AS received technical verification that the pilot project in Project Greensand, offshore Denmark, has been successful and is now ready to receive CO2.
The Project Greensand CCS development aims to store up to 1.5 million tonnes/year (tpy) of CO2 in 2025-26, and as much as 8 million tpy by 2030 (OGJ Online, Nov. 27, 2023). It is the world’s first cross-border CCS program.
The 23 partners behind Project Greensand have now submitted the final report from the pilot project, which has aimed to develop, test, and demonstrate safe and efficient storage of CO2 in the North Sea subsurface. The technical verification ensured that the stored CO2 remained safely and permanently in the closed Nini West reservoir 1,800 m below the North Sea seabed.
The project is now awaiting the Danish authorities' approval for permanent storage with the expectation that Greensand will be the first operational CO2 storage plant in the EU and will start storing CO2 by end-2025.
The consortium behind Project Greenway consists of 23 companies and includes Noble Corp., Aker Carbon Capture ASA, and Blue Water Shipping Inc. in addition to Wintershall and INEOS.
