Equinor has proud history of developing pipelines from Norway to Europe and has been developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions since 1996, including Sleipner, Snøhvit, Technology Centre Mongstad, Northern Lights, and Northern Endurance Partnership. CCS is crucial for cutting emissions and reaching climate targets. Several major projects are now underway to make the Norwegian seabed an important storage site for CO₂ for European heavy industries. Equinor is planning an over 1000 km long large diameter pipeline between Norway and Europe enabling European industrial clusters to transport CO₂ to Norway. With CO₂ Highway Europe, Equinor aim to bring scale to the development of the CCS industry and with a pipeline transport solution enabling competitive transportation cost compared to shipping solutions.
We will present the challenges of CO₂ Highway Europe project related to
– pipeline routing through congested areas with various infrastructure,
– landfall considerations,
– technology development activities related to transport of CO₂ such as internal flow coating, and running ductile fracture qualification for pipelines beyond existing test data domain,
– pipeline pre-commissioning,
– scale and logistics.
The objective is to present the CO₂ Highway Europe project, stimulate discussion on CO₂ pipeline transport and solutions for large scale pipeline projects.