In such periods Sleipner will use gas turbines to cover its shortage.
Since 1996, CO2 has been removed from the Sleipner Vest gas and injected in the Utsira Formation.
The Sleipner area(blocks 15/6,
15/8 and 15/9) includes the Sleipner Øst, Gungne and Sleipner Vest gas and condensate fields.
The orange cable shows power from shore to the Sleipner field centre and connected fields from late 2022.
CCS began at Sleipner after CO2 tax was introduced,
providing an economic incentive for storing CO2 instead of releasing it to the atmosphere.
For example,
one million tonnes of CO2 have been stored annually at the Sleipner project in the North Sea since it started operating in 1996.
I am pleased that the Sleipner licence partners support a solution enabling
the Sleipner field centre and tie-ins to be connected to the power from shore solution.
Since 1996, the Sleipner field has been used as a CCS
facility by Equinor as operator and a group of partnering companies, marking the longest ongoing CO2 storage project in the world.
Partners in the Sleipner field will disclose datasets from the world's
first offshore carbon capture and storage(CCS) plant, in a push to advance innovation and development on the field of carbon dioxide(CO2) storage, Norwegian energy company Equinor announced on Wednesday.