A joint effort to assess the potential for subsea pipes in the southern North Sea to be repurposed for carbon dioxide (CO2) transport is currently underway at a testing facility in the UK.
Taking place at its Testing and Research Facility in Spadeadam, UK, independent energy expert and assurance provider DNV is working with partners Wintershall Noordzee (Wintershall) and the OTH Regensburg University of Applied Sciences to test running fracture in submerged conditions for CO2 pipelines.
Regarded as a world first for the energy industry, the project’s early stages indicate that existing pipelines in submerged conditions may be well suited for transporting liquid CO2.
“The next step will be to demonstrate the reliability of the evaluation process and prove the feasibility experimentally,” commented Klaus Langemann, Senior Vice President of Carbon Management and Hydrogen, Wintershall.
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