The world’s first commercial CO2 storage device is given the first CO2 injection

Oslo – The world’s first commercial service that offers carbon storage off Norway’s coast has carried out its first CO2 injection into the sea floor of the North Sea.

The Northern Lights project, which is led by oil giants Equinor, Shell and total energy, includes the transport and buried of CO2 that have been captured throughout Europe in smoke stacks. The aim is to prevent emissions from being released into the atmosphere and thus stopping climate change.

“We have now safely injected and saved the very first CO2 in the reservoir,” said Tim Heijn, Managing Director of Northern Lights. “Our ships, facilities and fountains are now in operation.”

In concrete terms, it is liquefied and transported after taking the CO2 by ship to the Oygarden terminal near Bergen on the western coast of Norway.

It is then transferred to large tanks before it is injected through a 68-mile pipeline into the sea floor with a depth of around 1.6 miles in order to maintain permanent storage.

CO2 recording and storage (CCS) technology was listed as a climate center as a climate center by the intergovernmental panel for climate change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), in particular to reduce CO2 footprint of industries such as cement and steel, which are difficult to decarbonize.

The first CO2 injection in the geological reservoir of the northern light comes from the German Heidelberg material cement in Brevik in southeastern Norway.

But CCS technology is complex, controversial and expensive.

Without financial support, it is currently more profitable for industry to acquire “pollution permits” on the European carbon market than to pay for the recording, transportation and storage of your CO2.

So far, Northern Lights has only signed three commercial contracts in Europe. One is with a Yara -collection planting in the Netherlands, another with two of the organic fuel systems of Orsted in Denmark and the third with a thermal power plant from Stockholm in Sweden.

Northern Lights is largely financed by the Norwegian state and has an annual CO2 storage capacity of 1.7 million tons, which will increase to 5.5 million tons by the end of the decade.

While the efforts such as the Northern Lights focus on grasping carbon directly from the highest source of severance-industrial, industrial, smoke stacks, efforts were made to capture the gas from the ambient air, a more controversial methodology.

Mark Jacobson, Professor of Environmental Technology at Stanford University, told CBS News at the beginning of this year that he was doubtful about the motivations and effectiveness of both types of recording CO2, and he said bluntly that “direct aerial recording is not a real solution. We have no time to waste this useless technology”.

Jacobson believes that a direct aircraft is in particular a boondoggle, and more efforts should concentrate on the switch to clean energy sources.

The United States is currently receiving around 60% of its electricity from fossil fuels.

“You have to think about who suggests this technology,” said Jacobson. “Who will benefit from the CO2 recording and the direct air recording? It is the fossil fuel companies.”

“You just say: ‘Well, we extract as much CO2 as we emit. So we should continue to pollute and continue to dismantle mining,” Jacobson told CBS News and added that his attitude had not made him popular in the energy sector.

“Oh yes, diesel hate me, petrol engines hate me, ethanol people hate me, atomic heads hate me, coal people hate me. They do it because I say the truth,” he said. “We don’t need any of these technologies.”

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