#4 Ready to scale up?

The Dutch Council of State ruled positively on the final permits of the Porthos project earlier this month, and so the first major CO₂ transport and storage project in the Netherlands can go ahead. As Porthos prepares its Final Investment Decision (FID), a second, even larger scale CCS infrastructure project, Aramis, is now preparing for the next project phase (Front End Engineering Design (FEED). In addition several operators are also developing storage capacity and storage projects in the North Sea. While these ambitious and large-scale Dutch projects are gaining more and more attention and traction, Danish, UK and Norwegian CCS projects are also progressing their CCS policies and projects in the North Sea area.

The draft Net-Zero Industrial Act, setting a storage capacity goal of 50 megatons CO₂ as from 2030 is a further stimulus to the large scale CCS deployment in Europe. Currently, there are 70 CCUS projects in development in Europe, but the majority is only in early stage. This raises the question: do we scale up fast enough to meet the 2030 target?

Together with – amongst others –  the Norwegian government, Porthos, Aramis, and (scientific) experts in the field of CCS, we will focus on the current status of some of the most staged European projects while at the same time taking into account the broader (policy) picture.

Key note speakers

Ragnar Semundseth
Counsellor for Energy, Mission of Norway to the EU, Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy

Pièrre Bartholomeus
Managing Director New Energy, Gasunie

Hans Meeuwsen
Project Director, Porthos

Annemarie Manger
Head of Joint Team, Aramis

Per-Olof Granström
Energy and Climate Advisor (previously Secretary General for the Zero Emissions Platform)

Prof. Dr. André P.C. Faaij
Director of Science TNO Energy & Materials Transition and professor at UU and RUG

Additional contributions:
The Crown Estate, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, Neptune, TAQA Energy, EBN

We gladly invite you to join us during this fourth edition of the Carbon Storage Dialogues, where our guests will fill you in on the latest developments and where you will be able to meet your peers in an inspiring atmosphere. A more detailed program (with additional confirmed speakers) will be shared as soon as possible.