Norway energy firms Vår Energi CCS, Aker Solutions and Knutsen NYK Carbon Carriers are teaming up on the Trudvang carbon capture and storage project in the North Sea.
The trio’s combined strengths cover spanning offshore engineering, carbon dioxide storage development and operations, and marine transportation, enabling direct offshore batch injection.
Under an MoU, all three will strive to strengthen the Trudvang CO₂ transportation and storage project and establish “robust, flexible, and commercially attractive” CO2 transport and storage solutions for European industrial customers. Knutsen NYK Carbon Carriers is a joint venture between the Knutsen group and Japan’s NYK Line.
The concept targets initial injection volumes of approximately 2 million tonnes per annum (mtpa), with the potential to scale to more than 20 Mtpa.
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The Trudvang project, which will inject CO₂ into the Utsira Formation, benefits from operational experience in the nearby Sleipner field, where CO₂ has been successfully stored in the Utsira aquifer for nearly 30 years. This track record reinforces the project’s potential as a reliable and scalable pathway for long-term industrial decarbonisation.
In order to reach final investment decision, the parties will focus on joint engagement with customers, regulators, and other stakeholders to strengthen market confidence; flexible logistics to develop CO₂ transportation scenarios for both medium pressure and elevated pressure modes to accommodate different value chain requirements; and infrastructure optimisation on the unmanned platform designs and subsea solutions to minimise the environmental footprint and reduce operational costs.
They will also study direct offshore injection to mature the interface between CO2 vessels and offshore receiving facilities and ensure seamless, safe operations in the North Sea.
The Northern Lights carbon capture and storage joint venture recently added to its fleet. It began injecting its captured from wastewater treatment in March.
