A CO2 terminal is to be built at one of the UK’s largest ports, the port of Immingham. The terminal is to serve as a CO2 collection hub which would aggregate CO2 from industrial sources and ship it offshore to be stored permanently.
The Association of British Ports (ABP), which manages the port of Immingham, and Harbor Energy, an oil and gas company headquartered in Scotland are partnering up to build the terminal.
The companies state that the new terminal is supposed to serve as a link between the industrial producers of CO2 all over Europe and a CO2 transport and storage network, Viking CCS. Viking CCS is a project being developed by Harbor Energy. It will use high-capacity CO2 storage sites in the southern North Sea to permanently store the captured CO2 that it receives. The Viking CCS Project aims to cut the emissions In Europe by 10 million tonnes per year from 2030 and plans to begin CO2 capture as early as 2027.
Association of British Ports links VPI, Phillips 66, and West Burton Energy as partners to the Viking CCS Network venture. To transport the CO2 ABP intends to build a jetty to arrange for the imports and exports of liquid bulk products. The construction of this jetty is to begin in late 2024 and the first transport and storage of CO2 is expected to take place in 2027.
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