CO2 transport and storage: This is how we do it
For some industries the technologies are not yet available to make the full transition to a sustainable production process. We can help by collecting and storing their CO2 safely in empty offshore gas fields. Here's how we do it.
We collect
We collect, in barges, the CO2 that is captured from your production process:
- Industrial partners with CO2 capture installations
- Collection at customer site or at pipeline terminal
- Multiple customers can be serviced
Liquefaction
- Modular Compression Conditioning and Liquefaction system
- Quayside required for barge access
- Our partner:
We transport
At scheduled times we transport your CO2 by barge to an offshore storage location (or to a port-based user*):
- No onshore intermediate storage required
- Marine Operations
- CO2 pressurized in liquid form
- Our partners:
We store safely
We store your CO2 safely by directly injecting it in empty offshore gas fields*:
- Collaboration with offshore operators
- Minimal offshore power requirements (hydraulics ESD)
- Multiple storage locations foreseen
Offshore Interface
- Direct injection, independent of onshore terminals and export pipeline infrastructure
- Offshore interface (Tower Offloading Unit, TOU) re-deployable
- Short pipeline connection to wellhead platform / manifold
- Our partner:
*We can also deliver your CO2 to a user, who stores the CO2 in its products (CCU).
Full capacity design
Per customer we provide a minimum of 2 barges of 5500 cubic meters each, operated by pusher-tugs. That amounts to a scalable capacity starting at some 0.5 million tonnes per year up to multi-million tonnes per year per customer .
Operational from 2029-2030
We are working with CO2 storage developers to secure offshore and onshore storage capacity. Early 2021 we finished the detailed design and received Approval in Principle from Bureau Veritas. Front End Engineering & Design (FEED) will be completed in 2026. Construction of the first barge is expected to start in 2027-28 and some two years later we will collect, transport and store the first CO2.
Flexible and rapidly available
Our flexible approach is probably the best option if your installation is not near an existing or planned CO2 pipeline. And even if you are near a planned pipeline, our method could be a more rapidly available and competitive alternative. You could be one of the first onboard, when we finish our first fleet in 2029-2030
2016: Startup Fizzy Transition
2017: Pre-FEED
Realizing Pre-FEED with partners Wagenborg, Niestern/Sander and Petrogas.
2018: FEED & Feasibility
Realizing FEED, feasibility study. Bureau Veritas joins the project.
2019: Detailed design
Imodco joins the project. Detailed Design of the entire system from source to sink by all partners.
2021: Design Approval in Principle
Detailed design get Approval in Principle
2023: Partnership Baker Hughes
2025: PPGM shareholder
PGGM acquires 49 per cent stake in Carbon Collectors
2025: Storage Partner
Storage license application submitted with our solution
2026: Start FEED of TOU
SBM Offshore starts Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for the development of our Tower Offloading Unit (TOU)
2027-28: Build
Start construction.
2029-2030: First fleet operational
Fleet operational for first 0,5-1,5 Mtpa project.
Scale up
Scale-up to 6 million tonnes per year
CO2 Storage Areas
We follow a stepping stone strategy, transporting our first CO2 cargo to a depleted natural gas field in the Southern North Sea, while preparing to expand to other sectors of the North Sea as soon as storage locations become available there. By the mid 2030's we plan to build a network of customers and storage locations that will allow us to transport CO2 from almost anywhere in Western Europe to the nearest storage location or port-based user.
HEADQUARTERS
Carbon Collectors
Leonard Springerlaan 35
9727KB Groningen
The Netherlands
