North Sea pipeline to transport CO2 from Germany to storage sites in Norway

Offshore staff

STAVANGER, Norway — Equinor and Wintershall Dea will collaborate on a new carbon capture and storage (CCS) development in Norway and Germany.

The Norwegian-German (NOR-GE) CCS project aims to establish infrastructure for the safe transportation, injection and storage of CO₂ from Germany to subsurface reservoirs offshore Norway.

Both companies will work together to establish technical and commercial solutions, cooperating with governments to develop a regulatory framework.

Plans include a new 900-km-long open access pipeline that will connect the CO₂ collection hub in northern Germany with the storage sites in Norway, to be laid prior to 2032.

This will have a capacity of 20 MM to 40 MM metric tons per year of CO₂, equivalent to about 20% of Germany’s annual industrial emissions. There may also be an early deployment solution under which CO₂ could be transported by ship from the CO₂ export hub to the storage sites.

The two companies plan to apply jointly for offshore CO₂ storage licenses, with a view to storing 15 MM to 20 MM metric tons per year on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Wintershall Dea brings experience accumulated working on the proposed Greensand Project in the Danish North Sea, and it is also a partner in Equinor’s Snøhvit CCS project in the Barents Sea.

08.30.2022