To comply to the climate agreements of the Paris agreement, the Dutch Government decided to stimulate CO2 storage (i.e. CCS – Carbon Capture and Storage) in emptied gas fields. As part of these plans a system has been developed in the Rotterdam Port by which CO2 is captured, transported, compressed and stored in empty gas fields underneath the North Sea. This project has been named the Porthos project.
An existing formerly gas production platform, located 20 km from shore, has been selected to inject the CO2 into the empty gas fields.
A total amount of 40 Million tonnes of CO2 produced by industry in the Rotterdam Area will be routed via a 20 km pipeline to the offshore platform where it will be injected into the depleted gas reservoirs.
For intelligent pigging and commissioning pigging of this 20 km pipeline FB Group has designed, fabricated and supplied a complete Pig Receiver Skid which will be installed on the offshore platform.
