Wood advances CCS projects on Norwegian Continental Shelf

Scotland-headquartered engineering and consulting business John Wood Group (Wood) is advancing three carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), which combined can store up to 21 million tonnes of CO2 annually, the equivalent of nearly half of Norway’s total CO2 emissions in 2023 (46.6 million tonnes).

According to Wood, the company’s techno-economic assessments have established the foundation for sustainable CO2 transportation solutions, allowing the CCS projects to advance to the next development phase. 

These assessments included flow assurance simulations, CO2 specifications, subsea field layouts, and marine loading and offloading solutions.

“I am incredibly proud of our advisory team’s dedication and expertise, which have been instrumental in driving these projects forward,” said Azad Hessamodini, Executive President of Consulting at Wood.

“Our long-standing presence in the North Sea, combined with the strategic scopes of work we have secured in the Norwegian Continental Shelf, underscore our commitment to bringing investible and scalable decarbonisation solution to the region. We are honoured to support Norway in its journey towards a low carbon future.”

The CCS licenses are owned by Sval, Storegga and Vår Energi (Trudvang), Wintershall Dea and Total (Luna), and Wintershall Dea and Altera (Havstjerne), with Wood’s technical experts from Stavanger, Sandefjord, Galway, Aberdeen, and Reading collaborating on the projects.

The Trudvang project envisages the capture of CO2 by multiple industrial emitters in Northern Europe and the UK, the shipping of liquid CO2 from export terminals to an onshore receiving terminal in the south-west of Norway, and then transported via a purpose-built pipeline to the Trudvang location for injection and permanent storage.

The Havstjerne reservoir, anticipated to be in operation in 2027, envisions injecting CO2 transported by shuttle tankers and pipelines from multiple carbon capture hubs across mainland Europe. The Luna license is located 120 kilometers west of Bergen and is estimated to hold a CO2 storage injection capacity of up to 5 million tons per year.

In February, Wood was chosen by Japan’s energy major Inpex Corporation to work on several of its decarbonization projects across the globe. The company revealed it was providing engineering support for an onshore carbon CCS pipeline in Darwin, Australia, to reduce the emissions from Inpex’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) operations.