Offshore staff
KASSEL, Germany — Wintershall Dea has signed a memorandum of understanding with Wilhelmshaven Tank Terminal in northern Germany to jointly develop CO2nnectNow, a CO2 hub.
Under the proposed project, CO2 captured from German industrial sites would be transported to the planned hub at HES Wilhelmshaven Tank Terminal at Germany’s sole deepwater port.
From there, the CO2 would initially be shipped and later transported via pipeline to subsurface formations in the Norwegian and Danish North Sea for permanent storage.
The terminal features a deep draft quay and is connected to extensive industrial and rail infrastructure. Results from a study on the project’s feasibility should be known in 2023.
Wintershall Dea outlined plans in May for the BlueHyNow project to produce large volumes of hydrogen from natural gas in Wilhelmshaven. CO2 generated by BlueHyNow will also likely be captured and collected at CO2nnectNow.
More recently, the company entered a partnership with Equinor that aims to connect Germany and Norway via a 900-km CO2 pipeline with an annual capacity of up to 40 MM metric tons by 2032, transporting CO2 from the German coast to the Norwegian North Sea.
10.18.2022
