John Wood Group (Wood), a Scotland-based engineering and consulting business, has announced that three carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) have passed their respective feasibility tests. The Trudvang, Luna and Havstjerne CCS projects have successfully passed Wood’s comprehensive techno-economic assessments and they’re set to pass to their next development stage. The projects belong to Sval, Storegga and Vår Energi (Trudvang), Wintershall Dea and Total (Luna) and Wintershall Dea and Altera (Havstjerne) and they have a combined storage capacity of up to 21 MtCO2/year, almost half of Norway’s total CO2 emissions in 2023 (46.6 MtCO2).
The Trudvang project plans to the CO2 of multiple industrial emitters in Northern Europe and the UK and ship it to Norway in liquid form to later be injected and permanently stored in Trudvang. The Havstjerne reservoir should inject CO2 from multiple carbon capture hubs across mainland Europe and is set to become operational by 2027, while the Luna CCS plans to have a CO2 injection capacity of up to 5 Mt/year.