Port of Amsterdam CCS terminal advances

The investment is intended to accelerate the development of infrastructure that will connect industrial carbon emitters in the Netherlands and Germany with permanent geological storage sites beneath the North Sea, supporting the wider deployment of carbon capture, utilisation and storage.

“Carbon capture and permanent storage can make a direct contribution to reducing industrial emissions,” said the founders of SeaSeaS, chief executive Kees van Seventer and chief operating officer Peter Boers.

“Our ambition is to develop an open-access terminal in Amsterdam that connects industry across inland Europe with storage sites in the North Sea. Exolum’s involvement will strengthen the project and help move it closer to becoming operational.”

Designed to handle up to 3.5 million tonnes of CO2 annually, the terminal will receive liquefied carbon dioxide by vessel, rail, road and pipeline before shipping it to offshore storage facilities.

Scheduled to begin operations in 2030, the project aims to provide access to carbon storage for companies that lack direct pipeline connections, broadening participation in industrial decarbonisation.

“Carbon capture can only be deployed at scale if the infrastructure is in place to connect industrial emitters efficiently with different permanent storage sites,” said Nacho Casajús, senior vice president of Exolum Global Energy Logistics.

“SeaSeaS Amsterdam has the potential to become an important part of that value chain in Northern Europe, which is expected to grow significantly in scale.”

Located at the Port of Amsterdam, the terminal could also support future projects using captured CO2 as an industrial feedstock within the port area.