CO2 Summit: How Rotterdam is building Europe’s CO2 storage and infrastructure

A sprawling network of pipelines, terminals, and offshore reservoirs is quietly taking shape in the Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands, laying the groundwork for one of Europe’s most ambitious efforts to decarbonise heavy industry.

While individual carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects like Porthos and CO₂next have grabbed headlines, it is the steady accumulation of infrastructure being installed across the port and beyond that will surely come to define Rotterdam’s role as the continent’s carbon dioxide logistics hub.

Speaking at gasworld’s European CO2 Summit in Rotterdam, Dorus Bakker, Project Manager at the Port of Rotterdam Authority, painted a picture of a region not only retrofitting emitters but reengineering the very foundations of its industrial system.