The International Consortium of Northern Lights, the world sales and storage sales service in the world, successfully “the first carbon injection in the submarine funds of the North Sea, announced Monday. When gathering Giants Equinor, Shell and Totalnergies, Northern Lights is a commercial project that consists, for the payment of manufacturers or energetic, to transport and bury carbon dioxide captured at the exit of factories or energy plants in Europe.
“Now we have injected and safely stored the first (volume of) CO2 in the tank,” said the director of the Joint Business, Tim Heijn, cited in a press release.
CO2 liquefied and injected more than 2 kilometers under the bottom of the sea
Specifically, after capturing, the CO2 is liquefied, sent to the Øygarde terminal, near Bergen (west of Norway), transferred to large tanks and then injected by pipe, 110 kilometers on the coast, in an salt aquifer at 2,600 meters below the frame.
CO2 (CCS according to the English acronym) storage technology is cited by the group of intergovernmental experts on climate evolution (IPCC) between solutions to reduce the printing of decarbonity, such as cement or steel factories. The first volume of CO2 injected into the Northern Light Tank comes from a cement factory operated by the German Heidelberg materials in Brevik, in southeast Norway.
Three signed commercial contracts
However, CCS technology remains complex and expensive, especially in relation to the purchase of “pollution permit” in the European broadcasting market (STDs) market. In addition to its launch partners, Heidelberg Materials and Hafslund Celsio, including the waste incineration plant near Oslo, should begin to capture CO2 since 2029, Northern Lights has so far signed three commercial contracts in Europe.
These are related to an ammonia factory in Yara in the Netherlands, two electrical centers of Ørsted biomass in Denmark and an electroferremal energy plant in Stockholm Exergi in Sweden. To a large extent funded by the Norwegian state, Northern Lights has an annual storage capacity of 1.5 million tons of CO2, which should increase to 5 million tons for the end of the decade.
Source: BFM TV
