Carbon management projects

The Delta Rhine Corridor project is being developed by Gasunie, OGE, and other partners and aims to create a high-capacity CO₂ transport corridor between the Rhineland, the Ruhr region, and the Netherlands. The goal of the project is to transport CO₂ that has already been captured from industrial facilities via a cross-border pipeline network and to store it permanently in suitable geological formations. The planned corridor is intended to transport captured CO₂ from Germany via the Aramis infrastructure to offshore storage sites in the Dutch North Sea. This will support the application of CCS, particularly for industrial emissions that are difficult to avoid.

The Porthos project is a collaboration between Gasunie, EBN and the Port of Rotterdam Authority and is the first large-scale CO₂ transport and storage solution in the Netherlands. It enables industrial companies to store their CO₂ in underground storage facilities under the North Sea. This infrastructure is intended to significantly reduce CO₂ emissions in the Rotterdam region and make an important contribution to the decarbonization of Dutch industry.

CO₂next is intended to help reduce the amount of CO₂ released into the atmosphere. This will be achieved through the construction of a freely accessible terminal for liquid CO₂ at the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam, which is part of a new CO₂ infrastructure. This terminal offers industrial CO₂ emitters the opportunity to store CO₂ permanently in depleted gas fields under the North Sea (CCS) or, in the future, to supply CO₂ (CCU). CO₂next is being developed by Gasunie, Vopak, Shell, and TotalEnergies.

The Aramis project is a collaboration between TotalEnergies, Shell, Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN), and Gasunie. Aramis aims to help reduce hard-to-avoid CO₂emissions from industry by developing a large-scale CO₂ transport infrastructure. The infrastructure will transport captured CO₂ to suitable storage sites in depleted gas fields beneath the North Sea. It will be designed so that new CO₂ suppliers—that is, industrial companies that capture CO₂—and new storage sites can be connected as needed. This will allow the Aramis CCS infrastructure to be further expanded. The planned transport capacity is up to 22 million metric tons of CO₂ per year.

The Humber H₂ub^® (Green) project, developed by Uniper, aims to establish a hydrogen production center with an electrolysis capacity of 120 megawatts at the Killingholme site in the United Kingdom. The hydrogen will be produced using renewable energy and supplied to Phillips 66’s Humber refinery starting in 2029. There, it will replace a portion of the refinery’s fuel gas, thereby reducing the refinery’s direct CO₂ emissions.

The WHV CO₂ Corridor project offers users the opportunity to transport CO₂ from the German North Sea coast to various CO₂ storage sites in the Norwegian North Sea and other locations via OGE’s CO₂ pipeline infrastructure, using ship export terminals in Wilhelmshaven – for example, from TES-H₂ / HES – or via the planned offshore pipeline.

Fluxys is developing Zeebrugge into a multimolecule hub that also enables the export of CO₂ to different storage destinations. CO₂ is delivered to Zeebrugge, adequately pressurized on site and then transported onwards to safe and permanent storage sites in the North Sea – for example via Equinor’s planned approximately 1,000 km offshore pipeline to Norway or to storage sites in the United Kingdom. The project is supported by European funding scheme Connecting Europe Facility.

Equinor and VNG AG are collaborating on the planned H2GE Rostock hydrogen project. The project aims to produce hydrogen from natural gas while capturing and storing the resulting CO₂. The goal is to promote the supply of low-carbon hydrogen, contribute to reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions, and further expand the energy partnership between Germany and Norway.

In the CapTransCO₂ project, VNG and other companies in the Central German Chemical Triangle are investigating how a networked CO₂ transport infrastructure for CCU and CCS can help reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The goal is to transport captured CO₂ for use or storage, thereby supporting the long-term transformation of the chemical industry in Central Germany.

The Northern Lights project, initiated by Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies, has been in operation since 2025 and is the first cross-border CO₂ transport and storage project of its kind. It enables companies from across Europe to safely and permanently store their captured CO₂ in underground storage sites off the Norwegian coast. The goal is to establish CCS as a practical solution for industrial emissions and to create a scalable infrastructure for the long-term reduction of CO₂ emissions in the atmosphere.

Enagás and Cementos Molins are collaborating on the development of innovative technologies for CO₂ capture and the transport of captured CO₂ from cement production. The initiative aims to capture up to one million metric tons of CO₂ annually at the Molins plant in Sant Vicenç dels Horts. By utilizing new capture technologies and integrating them into a CO₂ transportation infrastructure for storage or potential use, the project aims to help reduce the amount of CO₂ released into the atmosphere from cement production.

Höegh Evi is driving innova¬tive solutions for the transport and permanent storage of CO₂. In collaboration with Aker BP, the company is developing a comprehensive CCS value chain for industrial CO₂ emitters in Northern Europe. This includes floating CO₂ storage units (FCSOs) that collect and process CO₂ from various sources, CO₂ ships for efficient transport, as well as an offshore injection facility for safe storage beneath the seabed.

Everllence develops technologies to reduce hard-to-avoid emissions in industrial production, energy supply, and shipping. A key focus is on solutions that enable CO₂ to be captured, compressed, transported, utilized, or permanently stored.

Everllence and its partners cover the entire CO₂ value chain—from capture and transport to utilization and storage. Everllence’s radial-gear compressors compress CO₂ in stages for transport, further processing, or storage. To produce e-methane or e-methanol, CO₂ can be combined with hydrogen generated through electrolysis using renewable electricity. Everllence engines can also be powered by these fuels in the shipping industry.

Ruhbens (Ruhr-Belgium-North Sea) is the cross-border CO₂ pipeline planned by OGE and Fluxys c-grid between the Rhine-Ruhr region and the port of Zeebrugge. Starting in the early 2030s, up to 20 million metric tons of CO₂ are expected to be transported annually via the approximately 500-kilometer-long pipeline system, to provide industrial emitters in Germany and Belgium with diversified access to permanent storage sites in the North Sea. The project and its German and Belgian sections have both been recognized as Projects of Common Interest (PCI) within the framework of the EU2NSEA initiative. Ruhbens is intended to establish a cross-border transport link for captured CO₂ and support the development of CCS value chains in Northwestern Europe. Planning phases for the German section are co-financed through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).

Antwerp@C is a planned CO₂ export terminal in the Port of Antwerp that Fluxys is developing in partnership with Air Liquide. The project is designed to facilitate the delivery, liquefaction, and temporary storage of CO₂, as well as its shipment to permanent geological storage sites in the North Sea. According to current plans, the terminal is scheduled to begin operations in 2028 with an initial capacity of approximately 2.5 million metric tons of CO₂ per year and can be expanded in the future. The project is co-financed by the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility.

The Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power project is being developed by Uniper in Northeast Wales and calls for a new gas-fired power plant unit with CO₂ capture at the existing site. The goal is to provide up to 1.38 GW of flexible power generation capacity with CO₂ capture, thereby supporting the reliability of the electricity supply and the UK’s decarbonization goals. The captured CO₂ will be transported via the HyNet infrastructure to depleted gas fields in Liverpool Bay, where it will be permanently stored offshore.