Norway Gets First Ship to Carry Waste Carbon to Undersea Storage
- Gas will be stored on coast before being pumped below seabed
- Technology to trap and bury CO2 remains complex and costly
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The first ship in a 30 billion-kroner ($2.7 billion) plan to store emissions under the North Sea arrived in Norway as the country seeks to transform nascent carbon-capture technology into a commercial business.
The Northern Pioneer will be one of four vessels transporting waste carbon dioxide from industrial sites to a storage facility outside Bergen. From there, the gas will be pumped into a saline aquifer more than a mile below the seabed.