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Ambitious Plan to Store CO2 Beneath the North Sea Set to Start Operations
The Greensand project will scale CO2 storage from 400,000 tons to 8 million tons annually by 2030 to support EU net-zero climate goals.
- Next year, the Greensand project led by INEOS Energy Europe will begin commercial operations, repurposing the Nini oil field beneath the North Sea for permanent CO2 storage.
- Greensand's partners include Danish biogas facilities supplying captured CO2, while the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the European Union's target of at least 250 million tons per year by 2040 support such projects.
- GEUS researchers reported that liquefied CO2 will be injected into Greensand sandstone about 1,800 meters below the seabed, where no reactive issues were found and seal capacity is sufficient.
- Construction at Port of Esbjerg and shipyards in the Netherlands is already underway, with a CO2 terminal and Carbon Destroyer 1 carrier being built and Siri platform workers preparing for injection operations.
- The IEA's global emissions totals underline the scale of the problem Greensand aims to tackle, with nearly 38 billion tons last year and Denmark's potential to store more than several hundred years of domestic emissions.
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