The Norwegian state-owned company for carbon capture and storage (CCS) Gassnova has assigned Statoil to monitor and evaluate the potential development of a CCS project on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).
Several studies were performed in 2016 and showed that Norway has the potential for a CCS project, both in terms of technical feasibility and in capture and storage supply chain. Statoil will perform concept and pre-engineering studies in order to get accurate cost estimates for a possible final investment decision, which is expected to be made by the Norwegian Parliament in 2019.
The project aims to capture, compress and temporarily store CO2 from three industrial plants, and then transport it by ship from the capture area to an onshore receiving facility in Norway. The CO2 will be pumped from the ship to tanks onshore and then be exported via offshore seabed pipelines to several injection wells on the offshore Troll field. The CO2 will be then permanently stored in reservoirs below the sea level (approximately 1000-2000 metres below the seabed).