Project Greensand, Denmark’s flagship carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiative led by INEOS, has awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract to APL, a subsidiary of oilfield services company NOV, to supply a key offshore injection system.
The system, designed by APL, will enable the direct transfer of liquefied CO2 from shipping vessels into geological reservoirs beneath the North Sea seabed. This marks APL’s entry into the offshore CO2 injection market and places Project Greensand among the earliest adopters of this advanced technology.
Project Greensand made global headlines in March 2023 when it carried out the world’s first cross-border CO2 injection into a North Sea storage site, proving the viability of international carbon transport and offshore sequestration.
In December 2024, INEOS — along with partners Harbour Energy and Nordsøfonden (the Danish North Sea Fund) — officially greenlit the commercial phase of the venture, known as the Greensand Future Project. This phase will create Denmark’s first operational CO2 storage facility at the Nini field.
Initially, the project is expected to sequester 400,000 metric tons of CO2 annually, with ambitions to scale up to 8 million tons per year by 2030.
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Central to this logistics chain is Carbon Destroyer 1, Europe’s first purpose-built offshore CO2 carrier.
Based on the EasyMax design, the vessel was developed jointly by Royal Wagenborg and Royal Niestern Sander shipyard. With a storage capacity of roughly 5,000 tons of liquid CO2, the ship boasts cutting-edge safety features, fuel efficiency, and emissions performance.
This integrated approach positions Project Greensand as a blueprint for large-scale CCS deployment in Europe and beyond.
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