Proper standards and best practices for capture, transmission and storage of CO2, as well as adequate qualification procedures do not currently exist in the oil and gas industry.

In order to develop these important guidelines and standards, Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is inviting international industry leaders and key stakeholders to join three Joint Industry Projects. These projects aim to provide a path forward for the industrial opportunity on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).

The outcome from the projects will provide international standards, methodologies, and guidelines that will form the basis for industrial agreements, and become valuable input to implementation of national requirements.

The new standards aim to facilitate and speed up CCS project development, decision processes and ongoing regulatory development, both in Europe and worldwide.

The key challenges the projects will address include how to store CO2 in sub-seabed formations in a safe manner, how to qualify CO2 storage projects and new CO2 capture technology, and what should be the industrial standard for transmission of CO2 in pipelines.

Industrial standards and best practices addressing these challenges do not currently exist.

“By facilitating these projects on capture, transmission, and storage of CO2, DNV is contributing to the removal of several important barriers in order to realise the full vision of CCS,” says Hans Axel Bratfos, head of DNV’s Cleaner Energy department.l

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