Offshore staff
LYSAKER, Norway – Aker Solutions has started a pilot project for carbon capture and storage (CCS) at Preem’s refinery in Lysekil, western Sweden.
The mobile test facility is part of a program that will assess the entire ‘value chain’ of CCS, from capture at the refinery, to local storage, to transport to a location offshore western Norway for storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).
The current project is a collaboration between Preem, Sweden’s largest fuel company, Aker Solutions, Chalmers University of Technology, Equinor, and the Norwegian research institute SINTEF, with funding from the Swedish Energy Agency and the Norwegian research and development program CLIMIT.
Later this year the mobile test unit will start capturing carbon from flue gases emitted from Preem’s hydrogen gas plant at Lysekil.
Preem believes a full-scale CCS plant could initially reduce emissions from the Lysekil refinery by 500,000 metric tons (551,156 tons) annually, close to one-third of the facility’s total CO2 emissions.
05/26/2020
