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FEATURE Energy Outlook

Aker Solutions has designed carbon capture technology, called Just Catch, that could ? t on offshore facilities.

Source: Aker Solutions ing their power to different countries watts (GW) of capacity in the grid left. ity with partners Gasnuie and EBN (a around the North Sea, to manage the Being able to get power to shore via state-owned energy organization). This grid effectively. It’s a concept launched different routes, i.e. as hydrogen, is an aims to take CO2 from industry in the in 2016 by a Dutch consortium. This option. The challenge is then is creat- Rotterdam port area and both supply year, a feasibility study concluded. Jas- ing demand for hydrogen, he says. it to greenhouses, to aid plant growth, per Vis, senior advisor at Tennet, one and also store it offshore via Taqa’s of the project partners, says it’s feasi- Cleaning industry P18a platform, 21km off the coast. “By ble. But, instead of one large island, a Another Dutch project, H-Vision, 2030, we expect to be able to store be- number of smaller – though still big – led by TNO with partners including tween 2-5 million metric tons of CO2 islands, either arti? cial islands or more Air Liquide, BP, Gasunie, Shell and every year,” according to the project’s traditional platforms, depending on Uniper, seeks to create 3.2GW of blue website. It’s targeting FID by the end of the seabed, would be better with elec- hydrogen plant in the Maasvlakte area, next year with start-up in 2023.

tricity conversion to hydrogen when near two existing power plants, to ful? l Meanwhile, Norwegian operator there’s too much power being pro- 20% of heat and electricity in the Rot- Equinor is also looking at hydrogen. duced, he told Offshore Energy. terdam area. A ? nal investment deci- In the H21 project in the UK, it’s been

This would suit the Netherlands, sion (FID) is planned for 2021, with looking at converting the north of which has big offshore wind ambitions ? rst hydrogen in 2026. This project will England’s natural gas system to use hy- but a limited power grid. Rob van der rely on CCS, with some, though not drogen, storing CO2 produced in the

Hage, business manager offshore, at all, of the CO2 produced in the process process, 100km offshore. A feasibility

Tennet, told Offshore Energy that the potentially being dealt with in another study has been done but a front-end en- ? rst hub could be built by 2025. It project, the Porthos (Port of Rotterdam gineering and design (FEED) study not would alleviate grid issues. Hage says CO2Transport Hub & Offshore Stor- yet funded. Equinor’s also involved in that once all the offshore wind farms age) CCUS (carbon capture utilization Zero Carbon Humber, a smaller proj- that are already planned up to 2023 and storage) project, which is being ect, to sequester then store CO2 from are built, there’s only another 7 giga- led by the Port of Rotterdam Author- the Drax power station, a former coal 14 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM