{"id":4406,"date":"2024-06-24T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2024\/06\/24\/belgium-throws-its-weight-behind-carbon-capture\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:10:32","slug":"belgium-throws-its-weight-behind-carbon-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/belgium-throws-its-weight-behind-carbon-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium throws its weight behind carbon capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the latest is&nbsp;Port of Antwerp-Bruges, which is developing&nbsp;a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fluxys.com\/-\/media\/project\/fluxys\/public\/corporate\/fluxyscom\/documents\/fluxys-belgium\/corporate\/announcements\/240619_oslo-declaration.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CO2 compression plant in Zeebrugge in collaboration with Fluxys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This facility will handle captured CO2 from Belgian and German industries, transporting it via the C-grid pipeline network to Zeebrugge for compression. The CO2 will then be transported through an Equinor operated undersea pipeline for permanent storage in Norway\u2019s former oil and gas reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collective force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This project could&nbsp; the North-West European market a robust and flexible solution for large-scale decarbonisation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in the feasibility stage, with an investment decision expected by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Many believe that Carbon Capture, transport and Storage (CCS) is essential for achieving significant CO2 emission reductions in future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Multiple industry organisations have now underscored the importance of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technologies by signing the Oslo Declaration.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration outlines five key policy actions to ensure the realisation of CCUS projects, such as the Ghent Carbon Hub, and low-carbon hydrogen initiatives like H2BE.<\/p>\n<p>Structural coordination and cooperation among countries around the North Sea are necessary to untap the full potential of CCUS. Likewise, collaboration between EU and non-EU countries around the North Sea will be crucial to developing cross-border interoperable CCUS infrastructure and connecting CO2 sources with sinks economically.<\/p>\n<p>Together with the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, North Sea Port has also signed the Oslo Declaration, together with large industrial stakeholders like ArcelorMittal Belgium, ENGIE, Equinor, Air Liquide, TotalEnergies and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More ports are throwing their weight behind the development of carbon capture facilities and the benefits of the establishment of\u00a0cross-border associated infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[1203,347,551,1651,488],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-europe-greenport","tag-belgium","tag-carbon-capture","tag-north-sea-port","tag-oslo-declaration","tag-port-of-antwerp-bruges"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4408,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions\/4408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}