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FEATURE Energy Outlook store CO2 sent via an onshore pipeline initiatives, such as the Technology Cen- for storage. Equinor has a license for from Scotland’s central belt and trans- ter Mongstad, in Norway, and projects, Northern Lights and is due to take a ported via ship to Peterhead port. including Gorgon in Australia, which ? nal investment decision in 2020, says

Sam Gomersall, Commercial Direc- will sequester 3.4 million metric tons Anna Korolko, Low Carbon Technol- tor at Pale Blue Dot, told Offshore Eu- of CO2 a year, and Boundary Dam ogy Lead, Equinor, with plans to start rope that there’s already work to allow power station, where CO2 created is operation at the end of 2023. Equinor 2% hydrogen content in the natural captured using Shell technology and has already been operating CCS at gas grid. A project in Aberdeen is look- then stored at a rate of 1 million metric Sleipner since 1996, with 23 million ing to increase that to 20%, locally, tons per year for 25 years. metric tons stored so far. It also has then up to 100% following infrastruc- the Snohvit CCS as well.

ture conversion work. The group gas Northern Lights Another project, Aramis, back in the funding into pre-front end engineer- There’s also the Northern Lights in Netherlands, is looking to store CO2 ing and design and thinks a project Norway led by Equinor with partners from the Rotterdam area. It’s being could be up and running by 2024. Shell and Total. This could see CO2 looked at by NAM, Total and EBN,

Owain Tucker - Global Deployment shipped from onshore industrial fa- who are eying the offshore K and L

Leader - CO2 storage, at Shell, pointed cilities to a coastal site from where it’ll blocks as storage sites, Esther Vermolen,

Offshore Europe attendees to existing be piped offshore into a saline aquifer Opportunity Manager Energy Storage

The Hydrogen Offshore Project (HOP) aims to use offshore facilities to produce hydrogen.

Source: The Oil & Gas Technology Center 16 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM