Ineos Energy has opened what it calls the first full-scale carbon dioxide storage facility in the European Union, located off the Danish coast. The site will initially store up to 400,000 metric tons of CO2 per year, with potential to expand to 8 million metric tons annually. Captured CO2 will be trucked to Port Esbjerg, loaded onto the vessel Carbon Destroyer 1, and injected into a depleted oil field in the Danish North Sea. The facility will start with CO2 from Danish biomethane producers but plans to accept industrial CO2 from across Europe. This development follows the Northern Lights project off Norway, which began storing CO2 last year. In other news, Yara International has started up Europe's largest carbon capture and sequestration project in Sluiskil, the Netherlands, marking a significant test case for the region's chemical industry. The article also covers business updates from BASF, Cabot, and other chemical firms, but the carbon storage and capture projects are the highlights for those tracking climate action.
