Project Greensand | Danish offshore carbon capture pioneer scouts North Sea oil field plan
Ineos Energy-led consortium brings in UK engineers Kent to screen 'full value chain' for landmark project which aims to inject huge volumes of CO2 from onshore emitters into the depleted Nini oil & gas field
A pioneering Danish offshore energy transition project looking into storage of as much as eight million tonnes of industrial carbon emissions by the end of the decade, has taken a key step forward with development consortium lead Ineos Energy starting “full carbon capture value-chain” screening work.
Project Greensand – a joint operation between 23 Danish and international partners in the CCS arena, including private companies, research institutes, universities and start-ups – foresees expanding the project to other decommissioned offshore oil & gas fields in the Siri area.
“This significant project adds to Kent’s portfolio of expertise in carbon capture and decarbonisation and brings together [our] multi-disciplinary capability in process and facilities, subsea and pipelines, flow assurance, naval architecture, and materials and corrosion.”
This will be followed by expansion of the project to the full Nini Main field, with larger-cargo vessels shuttling liquid CO2 to the central platform to pumped down dedicated new injection wells.
If Project Greensands ambitions are achieved, the total annual captured CO2would equate to that of 725,000 Danes, more than 13% of the country carbon output.