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EU’s first full-scale CO2 storage site opens in Danish North Sea
29/9/2026
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Greensand, a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project led by Ineos Energy, has entered commercial operation in Denmark, becoming the European Union’s first full-scale CO2 storage facility.
Denmark’s King Frederik X officially opened the Greensand facility at the Port of Esbjerg on 18 September, marking the start of commercial operations for the project, led by Ineos Energy alongside Harbour Energy and the Danish North Sea Fund (Nordsøfonden).
The facility will initially be able to store up to 400,000t/y of carbon, with plans to expand capacity to between 4mn and 8mn t/y.
The project will initially source CO2 from Danish biomethane plants before transporting it to a terminal at the Port of Esbjerg, where it will be loaded on to the Carbon Destroyer 1.
The CO2 will then be transported to the Nini West reservoir, a depleted oil field around 250km offshore, where it will be injected approximately 1,800m beneath the seabed for permanent storage.
The opening ceremony was attended by industry and political leaders including European Commissioner for Energy and Housing Dan Jørgensen, Danish Finance Minister Peter Hummelgaard and Ineos Chairman Jim Ratcliffe.
The launch comes as the EU seeks to expand CCS capacity in support of its climate targets. The bloc is targeting annual CO2 storage capacity of 50mn t by 2030, rising to between 250mn and 280mn t by 2040.
The opening follows the recent launch of a CCS facility connected to the Northern Lights project in Norway.
Construction begins on Canada’s largest carbon storage hub
Enhance Energy has started construction of a CCS hub in Alberta that is expected to become Canada’s largest CO2 storage facility when it enters operation in 2027.
The Origins CCS hub, located in Clive, Alberta, is designed to initially store up to 1.5mnt/y of CO2 and could be expanded in the future. The project is expected to begin operations in January 2027.
Origins has received two C$5mn ($3.52mn) grants from Natural Resources Canada’s Energy Innovation Program and has been approved as a carbon sequestration hub by the government of Alberta.
The facility will connect to Alberta’s CO2 transportation network via pipeline and is expected to initially receive emissions from industrial facilities in Alberta’s industrial heartland.
Enhance Energy said the site will be capable of serving a range of hard-to-abate sectors, including cement, oil and gas, power generation, hydrogen production and petrochemicals along Alberta’s Edmonton-Calgary corridor.
