Pilot, KNCC assess CO2 transport and storage offshore Western Australia

Offshore staff

BONDI JUNCTION, Australia — Pilot Energy and KNCC have entered an agreement to work on marine transportation and offshore injection of CO₂.

They plan to develop solutions for large-scale industrial emitters to transport via ship their liquefied CO₂ (LCO₂), at ambient temperature, for injection and permanent storage at the Cliff Head CCS Project offshore Western Australia.

The CCS development involves converting the operating Cliff Head offshore oil field to a permanent CO₂  storage operation that can store more than 1 MMtpa/year of CO₂ continuously through 2050 with potentially more than 50 MMtonnes of total storage capacity.

It is also part of Pilot’s Mid West Clean Energy Project, which is targeting production of more than 1.2 MMtpa/year of low-cost, clean ammonia for export with about 99% carbon capture via use of Cliff Head CCS.

KNCC, based in Haugesund, Norway, is owned jointly by Norway’s Knutsen Group and NYK Group in Japan. The company is focused on the technical and commercial development of a LCO₂ marine transportation and storage business using its propriety containment system technology, LCO₂-EP (LCO₂ Elevated Pressure), which enables transport of LCO₂ at ambient temperatures.

The process has DNV General Approval for Ship Application, which allows KNCC to order vessels using this technology once commercial and financial terms are in place for all aspects of the Cliff Head CCS Project

During the initial three years of the MoU between KNCC and Pilot, the parties will jointly assess technical and commercial solutions for supplying a CO₂ transportation service to emitters in the Western Australian Kwinana Industrial Area.

06.16.2023