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Name of the Project
CO2 transport system project.
Location
France and Norway
Project Owner/s
Equinor and GRTgaz.
The companies, with their complementary skills, will cooperate in the development of their CO2 transmission and storage infrastructure and associated services: network planning, technical design and industrial safety, interoperability, regulatory aspects and institutional relations.
Project Description
The development will comprise a network of 30 km of onshore CO2 pipelines, which will connect France’s Dunkirk industrial area to Equinor’s CO2 Highway Europe pipeline project – a large-scale CO2 pipeline being planned by Equinor connecting Zeebrugge, in Belgium, to a portfolio of storage sites under the seabed off the shore of Norway.
A compressor station in Dunkirk will send the CO2 into the offshore pipeline connecting to the CO2 Highway Europe.
The capacity in the initial phase will be 3- to 5.5-million tonnes of CO2 a year, which can be expanded to also accommodate CO2 captured at other industrial clusters in France.
Potential Job Creation
Not stated.
Capital Expenditure
Not stated.
Planned Start/End Date
Basic engineering studies are expected to start at the end of 2024, with commissioning targeted for 2029.
Latest Developments
Feasibility studies are under way.
Key Contracts, Suppliers and Consultants
None stated.
Contact Details for Project Information
Equinor, tel +47 5199 0000 or email to irpost@equinor.com.
GRTGaz, tel +33 1 55 66 40 00.