In Norway, Borg CO2, a joint project between 18 industry partners and the Port of Borg, and Northern Lights, the transport and storage component of the Longship industrial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the feasibility of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, transport, and storage solutions for industrial partners in the Fredrikstad region.
The plan is to transport captured CO2 to a terminal at the Port of Borg, where it will be loaded onboard a Northern Lights-operated ship for transport to the intermediate storage terminal at Øygarden on the Norwegian west coast.
Northern Lights, a joint venture between partners Equinor, Shell, and Total, delivers CO2 transport and storage as a service and aims to enable the decarbonization of industrial emissions and facilitate the removal of CO2 from the air.
From Øygarden the CO2 will be injected into a 100 km long pipeline and injected into permanent storage in a reservoir 2.6 km below the seabed.
This collaboration with Northern Lights is important for the development of carbon capture and storage solutions in the region. Without the pioneering work done by Northern Lights to create an open source third party storage facility, carbon capture would not be possible in our region, said Tore Lundestad, Managing Director of Borg CO2 and Harbour Master for the Port of Borg.
Develop a regional CCS hub
Registered as a subsidiary of Borg Havn IKS, Borg CO2 aims to organize, develop, evaluate, plan and map the potential for deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, primarily for industrial facilities in Østfold.
It is supported by CLIMIT, a national program for the research, development, and testing of CCS technologies. Since 2018, it has worked on mapping the opportunity to develop CCS for an industrial cluster in eastern Norway.
The project has 18 partners representing industry, waste management, logistics, energy, technology providers, and academia – Borg Havn, FREVAR KF, NORSUS, Kvitebjørn Bio-El, Fortum Oslo Varme, EGE Oslo, Stormkast Utvikling, Equinor, IFE, CO2 Capsol, Borregaard, Acinor, Compact Carbon Capture, Biobe, Norske Skog Saugbrugs, Østfold Energi, Geminor and Sarpsborg Avfallsenergi.
The industrial cluster employs 1 400 people and is responsible for emissions of almost 700 000 tonnes of CO2 annually. The aim is to capture and store up to 90 percent of the total emissions, or around 630 000 tonnes a year with the Port of Borg serving as a host for a future CO2 loading terminal.
We are very pleased about this collaboration. CO2 management is important to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. Low-carbon industrial production will be a competitive advantage in Europe. Northern Lights offers the opportunity to store CO2 safely and permanently deep under the seabed in Norway and if the project is realized it will be an important contribution to protecting and creating new climate-neutral jobs in the region, said Børre Jacobsen, Managing Director of Northern Lights.
