DAY 1: Tuesday, October 31st
13:30 Transport and infrastructure
Session chair and discussion moderators: Bob Smith, U.S. Department of Energy, and Lars Ingolf Eide, Research Council of Norway.
Agenda:
13:30 Transport program overview and priorities (both sides)
Bob Smith. NOTE: Bob Smith’s presentation as presented here covered also to two topics below: Carbon Transport Research Consortium and Carbon Transport Research Consortium.
13:50 Topics of common interest (5 min presentations)
· Pipeline impurities and specifications: Arne Dugstad, Institute for Energy Technology (online)
· Carbon Transport Research Consortium: Bob Smith, U.S. DOE (see above)
· Repurposing infrastructure: Bob Smith, U.S. DOE (see above)
· Public engagement: Aslak Hellestø, Northern Lights (online)
· Discussion: Panel members from industry and research
14:30 Discussion: Areas of cooperation in transport and infrastructure. Facilitators: Bob Smith and Lars Ingolf Eide
The discussion revealed that despite some significant differences between USA and Norway in CO2transportation needs (in US major emission sources, significant storage opportunities and pipelines are onshore and often far from the coasts; in Norway the situation is opposite, with emissions sources mainly on the coast, all storage sites and pipelines offshore), some topics should be well suited for collaboration:
- How to improve public/societal relationships regarding pipeline CO2 transport, particularly relevant in USA?
- Pipeline specifications:
o Site specific or is it possible to develop general standards, recommended practices, and potential regulations?
o Pipeline impurities:
§ Determining the effect CO2 stream impurities has on materials, corrosion.
§ The impacts of having CO2 streams from different sources (mixed stream).
§ Understanding integrity threats.
§ Materials selection.
o Creating a testing protocol to complement ongoing work), including test facilities, including fluid behaviour.
o Coordinated experimental and modelling efforts.o Repurposing pipelines.
A very concrete example of possible collaboration was a wish from FECM to have a Norwegian specialist review the pipeline specifications if the FEED studies they will initiate as part of their programme.
Lars noted that repurposing pipelines has been addressed in some papers by Norwegian organisations (not shown in meeting):
· Re-stream - Study on the reuse of oil and gas infrastructure for hydrogen and CCS in Europe by Carbon Limits and DNV (2021) (https://www.concawe.eu/wp-content/uploads/Re-stream-final-report_Oct2021.pdf)
· DNV Whitepaper (2022): Safely re-using infrastructure for CO2 transport and storage (https://www.dnv.com/Publications/safely-re-using-infrastructure-for-co2-transport-and-storage-229979)
· DNV: Safely repurposing existing pipeline- infrastructure for CO2 transport – Key issues to be addressed (2022) (https://www.pipeline-journal.net/articles/safely-repurposing-existing-pipelineinfrastructure-co2-transport-key-issues-be-addressed)
· Sintef: HyLINE - Safe Pipelines for Hydrogen Transport (https://www.sintef.no/en/projects/2019/hyline-safe-pipelines-for-hydrogen-transport/)