Aker Carbon Capture (ACC) has been awarded a pre-FEED for Statkraft’s Heimdal waste-to-energy plant in Norway which aims to capture 220,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.
By capturing and permanently storing these emissions, it will be possible to reduce up to 25% of Trondheim municipality’s CO2 emissions. The pre-FEED covers CO2 capture, compression, purification, liquefaction, and temporary storage.
From Heimdal, liquid CO2 will be transported by truck to an export terminal with subsequent ship transport to permanent storage.
Jon Christopher Knudsen, Chief Commercial Officer at ACC, said the decarbonisation of the waste-to-energy industry is crucial in achieving Norway’s ambitious climate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030.
In 2023, Aker Carbon Capture was awarded a full FEED by Hafslund Oslo Celsio, the largest supplier of district heating in Norway, to develop carbon capture at their waste-to-energy facility at Klemetsrud in Oslo.
The project will be delivered based on ACC’s modularised Just Catch 400 unit, with a design capacity to capture up to 400,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.
For Heidelberg Materials’ cement plant in Brevik Norway, ACC is delivering a carbon capture plant with a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year.
Last month, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CO280 Solutions to collaborate on the development of large-scale CO2 Removal projects in the US and Canada pulp and paper industry.
ACC recently announced it is forming a joint venture with SLB to combine their respective carbon capture businesses in a bid to accelerate industrial decarbonisation at scale (click here).
Following the transaction, expected to close by the end of the second quarter, SLB will own 80% of the combined business and ACC 20%.
Egil Fagerland, CEO of ACC, said, “By partnering with SLB, we will become a diversified, global carbon capture player. Our combined suite of technologies and global reach will make a platform positioned to profitably scale faster, to the benefit of customers, employees and shareholders.”
The International Energy Agency (IEA) sees carbon capture, utilisation and sequestration (CCUS) playing a critical role in the Net-Zero transition, estimating that over one gigatonne of CO2 per year will need to be captured by 2030, scaling up to over six gigatonnes by 2050.
