Technip Energies has been awarded a large engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the world’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.
The contract was awarded by Hafslund Oslo Celsio, the largest supplier of district heating in Norway, for a waste-to-energy plant located in Oslo.
According to a statement from Technip Energies, the project will be the first full-scale waste-to-energy plant in the world with the ability to capture carbon. The statement noted that 400,000 tonnes of CO2 will be captured per year, which is the equivalent to emissions from around 200,000 cars, and is expected to reduce Oslo’s emissions by 17%.
As part of the Longship project, the CO2 will then be liquified and exported to Northern Lights which is the first cross-border, open-source CO2 transport and storage infrastructure network.
Norway lauched the $2.6bn Longship project in 2020
Longship is a full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project that will demonstrate the capture of CO₂ from industrial sources, as well as transport and safe storage of CO₂. CO₂ will be captured at Norcem’s cement factory and Oslo Fortum Varme’s waste incineration plant, liquefied and collected by ships.
It will then be transported to an intermediate storage facility in Øygarden northwest of Bergen, before it is pumped through pipes to the Norwegian continetal shelf, where it will be stored safely 2600 meters below the seabed. Initially, there is a storage capacity of 1.5 million tonnes of CO₂ per year at the storage site, while the pipe from the onshore facility to the reservoir is dimensioned for 5 million tonnes.
Northern Lights, which is responsible for the transport and storage part of Longship, plans to increase storage capacity to 5 million tonnes per year through an additional development phase (Phase 2) and an increasing customer base.
The carbon capture plant will use the Shell CANSOLV CO2 Capture System, which is a state-of-the-art amine-based technology for the capture of CO2 from the flue gas.
Technip Energies commends successful partnership
Technip Energies noted that the EPC contract award follows several years of a joint journey with the completion of the design competition, the successful delivery and testing of a pilot unit and continuous collaboration between itself and Hafslund Oslo Celsio to optimise project economics.
Developing, testing and proving this cost-effective solution is the result of a close partnership and co-development with the owner, Technip Energies and the technology provider.
Commenting on the award win, Arnaud Pieton, CEO of Technip Energies, said: “We are proud to be entrusted by Hafslund Oslo Celsio to support the development of the first waste-to-energy with Carbon Capture and Storage project in the world. Norway is at the forefront of decarbonisation initiatives and, by being part of Hafslund Oslo Celsio project, we will contribute to one of the two projects of Longship, the very first Phase of Northern Lights.
“We are committed to leverage our strong expertise in CO2 management, our local presence and our alliance with Shell to successfully deliver this groundbreaking project, a key milestone towards a low-carbon future.”
The company noted that the awarded contract value is between $256.5mn and $513.1mn.
