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Carbon dioxide injections started at Melkoya

The Melkoya LNG plant (StatoilHydro.com)

Norwegian energy major StatoilHydro has started injections of carbon dioxide from the Melkoya LNG plant into geological formations in the Barents Sea

Location

The CO2 injections enable the company store the climate gas under the sea, thus cutting emissions to air. The sub-sea formation is located 2600 under the sea bottom in the area of the Snohvit gas deposit.

-By reinjecting the CO2 under the sea bottom we significantly reduce the emissions of climate gases from the Melkøya plant, StatoilHydro production director Edvin Ytredal says in a press release. –We get an environmental benefit which at the same time helps us develop new knowledge about CO2 injections, he adds.

With full production at Melkøya, an annual total of 700,000 tons of CO2 will be stored in the sub-sea formations.