Porthos
Porthos stands for Port of Rotterdam CO2 Transport Hub and Offshore Storage. The project intends to provide transport and storage infrastructure to energy intensive industries in the Port of Rotterdam and possibly at a later stage to industries in the Antwerp and North Rhine Westphalia areas. The project will link the CO2 Capture facilities and the existing OCAP pipeline with a new onshore pipeline which will drive the aggregated CO2 in a CO2 hub in the Port of Rotterdam and subsequently via an offshore pipeline in a depleted gas field 20 km off the coast for permanent storage.
Project type:StorageTransport
Participants:Port Authority Gasunie EBN Air Liquide Air Products ExxonMobil and Shell
Country:Netherlands
Type of capture:Not applicable
IOGP members involved: Porthos has signed Joint Development Agreements (transport and storage contracts) with ExxonMobil and Shell
Planned start of operation: 2026
CO2 capacity at start date: 2.5
CO2 capacity after completion:
Status: Advanced Development
Type of storage: Offshore - Depleted Gas Fields (P18-2, P18-4 and P18-6), Dutch North Sea
Funding and support scheme: National funding, Project of Common Interest
Info related to the funding and support scheme: For the preparatory studies, Porthos received a grant of € 1.2 million from RVO (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) in 2018 and a grant of € 6.5 million from the European Commission in 2019. In 2021, Porthos received a subsidy of € 102 million from Brussels for the realization of the infrastructure.
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Links: https://www.porthosco2.nl/en/https://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/sccs/project-info/2164