French gas TSO GRTgaz’s plans for a major pipeline to transport carbon for storage purposes to aid decarbonisation in western France have gathered pace following a successful call for expressions of interest, it said on Thursday.
Five companies, including industrials with carbon capture projects and those with plans to convert the pollutant, had made commitments with GRTgaz and Elengy – Engie’s LNG arm, while 10 other companies had indicated potential interest, said the TSO, adding it would also carry out feasibility studies.
As part of the mooted development, GRTgaz would build the infrastructure, with Elengy to develop a carbon liquefaction and export terminal to ship the waste to storage sites abroad.
The project, originally announced in March, was estimated to cost EUR 1.7bn and could transport up to 2.6m tonnes/year of carbon by 2030, rising to 4m tonnes/year by the mid-century, accounting for more than 75% of industrial emissions in the region by then.
In June, GRTgaz and Norwegian utility Equinor announced the joint development of a separate CO2 transport and storage project linking northern France’s Dunkirk industrial zone to storage sites in the North Sea by 2029.
France is aiming to store 8m tonnes/year of carbon by 2030 and 20m tonnes/year by 2050, as part of its efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by mid-century.
source: montelnews.com
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