Norway’s Noreco joins a 3 MtCO₂/year CCS project in the Danish North Sea

The Norwegian petroleum company Noreco has entered into a carbon capture and storage (CCS) partnership with Ørsted and DTU together with its partners in the Danish Underground Consortium on progressing CCS in the Danish North Sea. The Project Bifrost, which aims to reuse existing North Sea infrastructure while demonstrating CO₂ storage in a depleted offshore gas field, will evaluate the potential for CO₂ transport and storage at the Harald field in the Danish North Sea with an expected start-up storage capacity of 3 MtCO₂/year. The CCS partnership has applied for funding under the ‘Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme’ (EUDP), a Danish public subsidy scheme, to develop and select the transport and storage concept for Project Bifrost. The DUC consists of TotalEnergies (43.2%), Noreco (36.8%) and Nordsøfonden (20%) and produces 97% of the gas and 85% of the oil from the Danish North Sea.