Equinor commissions PGS for second North Sea carbon storage survey

June 17, 2022

PGS has a conditional award from Equinor for a seismic acquisition survey over the proposed Smeaheia carbon storage site in the North Sea.

PGS has a close collaboration with Equinor in the long-standing monitoring of the Sleipner CO2 storage site.

Offshore staff

OSLO, Norway — PGS has a conditional award from Equinor for a seismic acquisition survey over the proposed Smeaheia carbon storage site in the North Sea.

Acquisition should take place from August to September 2022 and is expected to be complete in September of the same year.

Earlier this year, PGS acquired seismic data for Equinor over the Northern Lights carbon storage area in the North Sea.

Carbon capture and storage are to play a major role in the Norwegian climate solution. Equinor, Shell and Total are investing in the Northern Lights project — Norway’s first license for CO₂ storage on the NCS and a major part of the initiative that the Norwegian government calls Longship.

Equinor has submitted plans to develop 20 MM metric tons per year of CO₂ storage capacity in Smeaheia.

Northern Lights, the CO₂ storage facility for the Longship project, has a planned injection capacity of 1.5 MM metric tons/year in Phase 1 (available from 2024), with plans to develop the capacity to 5 MM metric tons to 6 MM metric tons per year from about 2026.