CO2 transport definition
Examples of CO2 transport in a sentence
The North Sea is a mature petroleum province and hosts an extensive network of infrastructure that will become increasingly available for re-use for CO2 transport and storage as oil and gas production declines.
Once available, existing oil and gas infrastructure may be transferred or adapted to support the deployment of CO2 transport and storage networks.
Before these pipelines can be re-used they need to undergo a further assessment of their suitability for CO2 transport (maximum pressure, corrosion etc.).
The transition towards a decarbonised economy offers many new business opportunities such as offshore wind, biobased chemistry, demand- side-management and energy storage, CO2 transport and storage and synthetic fuel production.
When assessing the legal design for facilitating reuse of installations for CO2 storage, a state may take into account the following: • National legislators and regulators should assess whether the provisions and procedures regarding the reuse of offshore hydrocarbon infrastructure are suitable to facilitate the reuse of offshore hydrocarbon infrastructure for CO2 transport and storage.
Most of the necessary CO2 transport and storage infrastructure components can already be found in use for oil and gas operations.
In this deliverable, the cost for CO2 transport and storage is not considered as this is under study in WP4.
Technical criteria for the assessment of existing offshore oil and gas infrastructure for re-use in CO2 transport and storage have been reviewed, building on criteria proposed in WorleyParsons (2013) and IEAGHG (2018).
Appendices B and C contain expert recommendations from the EU Zero Emissions Platform working group supporting the ELEGANCY and ALIGN projects on dealing with barriers and risks when selecting business and deployment models for CO2 transport and storage.
In case existing satellite pipelines between individual platforms have sufficient CO2 transport capacity according to the NSE atlas (version Nov 2019), they may be re-used.