Copenhagen port participates in carbon capture and storage project

The Port of Copenhagen, Denmark has announced its participation in an innovative carbon capture project, which can contribute to making the city of Copenhagen CO2 neutral by 2025.

According to the Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP), the Danish-Swedish joint venture that operates the ports of Copenhagen and Malmö, Sweden, it will contribute to the project, storing and distributing captured CO2 contributing to the city of Copenhagen’s goal of becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral capital city.

The project, which will be the first of its kind in Denmark, focuses on developing a facility for the capture of CO2 emissions from the Amager Resource Centre (ARC).

Located adjacent to the port of Copenhagen, that facility processes the waste from the nearly 650,000 inhabitants and 68,000 businesses in the Copenhagen metropolitan area. The facility emits 560,000 tons of CO2 annually. The project calls for the capture of 90 percent of the annual CO2 emissions or 500,000 tons, which corresponds to approximately one percent of Denmark’s total emissions.

Copenhagen Malmö Port’s (CMP) role in the project will be to store and distribute the captured CO2 to ships that will transport it to storage in the old oil fields in the North Sea.

Once the CO2 is captured at Amager Bakke, it will be transported via a short pipeline to special tanks at CMP’s nearby terminal on Prøvestenen. From there, the CO2 will be pumped aboard ships, which sail it out to the North Sea, where it will be stored in the drained underground oil reservoirs.

For more information visit www.cmport.com

26th October 2020