Errai CCS hits milestone
Developers of Norway’s first commercial carbon capture and storage project secure site for intermediate terminal in one of country’s largest industrial zones
Norway’s first commercial carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, called Errai, has taken an important step forward by securing a site for an onshore facility to hold CO₂ temporarily before it is piped offshore for permanent storage under the North Sea. Norwegian company Horisont Energi, which is developing the project with UK independent oil and gas producer Neptune Energy, has signed an option agreement on a site at Gismarvik on the west coast of Norway with the Haugaland Naeringspark, one of the country’s largest industrial zones. The site has access to a large harbour basin with a deep-sea quay. The onshore terminal would be capable of receiving gas from European and domestic sources,
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