Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a necessary driver for decarbonising the economy in Europe. The Horizon Europe project COREu will set the path for a successful expansion of CCS technology and brings together over 40 key partners from industry and science.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Horizon Europe COREu project, one of the largest Research and Innovation projects in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) ever funded by a European programme. The kick-off meeting, held on 31 January and 1 February in Trondheim, brought together representatives from over 40 industrial and scientific partners from all over Europe.

Through a detailed presentation of the work packages, covering Core Technologies, Demonstration cases, CO2 Routes and Sustainability, the partners gained an even better insight into the various parts and phases of this ambitious undertaking. “It's essential to get CCS off the ground all over Europe in order to create a market big enough for commercialisation of the needed technologies and services. And we are helping that with a project that is meant to close the divide between northern countries and the rest of Europe,” said Chiara Caccamo, Research Manager at SINTEF and Coordinator of COREu.

COREu aims to establish an openly accessible, cross-border infrastructure and logistics network for CCS, connecting emitters and storage sites across Europe. Its main objectives include:

• Accelerate CCS deployment by demonstrating safe and effective CO2 transport and storage,
• Increase the TRL of the CCS technologies developed, and
• Define economically viable, societal- and environmentally-aware business models for a sustainable upscaling of CCS deployment.

COREu will develop critical technologies for the entire CCS value chain, including innovative tanks for transporting CO2, simulation tools for estimating reservoir capacity and injection rates, and subsea autonomous vehicles for monitoring CO2 leakages. Four routes will be established in the following regions: Prinos/Kavala in Greece, South Moravia in the Czech Republic, Baltic/Gdansk in Poland and Western Ukraine. COREu will also initiate emitter clusters that promote demand and business rationale for investments in CCS.

The consortium of more than 40 partners features a broad set of competencies: emitters, technology providers, gas transmission system operators, oil and gas companies, research institutes and universities from Norway, Greece, Italy, the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Cyprus, Slovenia, the UK and Germany. The expertise that the partners bring to CCS from these different sectors will enable the project to create a framework that contributes to the expansion of CCS.

The consortium of COREu consists of the following members:

1. SINTEF ENERGI AS, Norway Coordinator
2. ENERGEAN OIL & GAS - ENERGEIAKI AIGAIOU ANONYMI ET, Greece Partner
3. ENERGEAN ITALY S.P.A., Italy Affiliated Partner
4. ELPEDISON PARAGOGI ILEKTRIKIS ENERGEIA MONOPROSO, Greece Partner
5. CAO HELLAS THESSALIKI ASVESTOPOIIA MONOPROSOPI A, Greece Partner
6. ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTY, Greece Partner
7. BUSE GAS S.A., Greece Partner
8. MND a.s. , Czech Republic Partner
9. CESKA GEOLOGICKA SLUZBA, Czech Republic Partner
10. UNIGEO a.s. , Czech Republic Partner
11. INSTYTUT NAFTY I GAZU - PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAW, Poland Partner
12. LOTOS Petrobaltic S.A., Poland Partner
13. Ukrainian Research and Development Institute of Gas, Ukraine Partner
14. PRIME CARBON STORAGE AND TRANSPORT LTD, Cyprus Partner
15. GAS VESSEL PRODUCTION PROIZVODNJA IN INZENIRSKE DEJAVNOSTI DOO, Slovenia Partner
16. MACGREGOR NORWAY AS, Norway Partner
17. CAN systems AS, Norway Partner
18. DESFA, Greece Partner
19. GRTGAZ, France Partner
20. Open Grid Europe GmbH, Germany Partner
21. OpenGoSim Ltd, United Kingdom Partner
22. RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM, Germany Partner
23. Saipem, Italy Partner
24. SGS SOCIETE GENERALE DE SURVEILLANCE SA, Switzerland Partner
25. MOTOR OIL (HELLAS) DIILISTIRIA KORINTHOU A.E., Greece Partner
26. HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM POTSDAM DEUTSCHESGEOFORSC, Germany Partner
27. ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS, Greece Partner
28. ETHNIKO ASTEROSKOPEIO ATHINON, Greece Partner
29. UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA, Italy Partner
30. STIFTELSEN NORSK INSTITUTT FOR NATURFORSKNING NIN, Norway Partner
31. ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA, Italy Partner
32. BELLONA EUROPA AISBL, Belgium Partner
33. SINTEF AS, Norway Partner
34. SVILUPPO TECNOLOGIE E RICERCA PER L'EDILIZIA SISMICA, Italy Partner
35. PERSPECTIVES CLIMATE RESEARCH GGMBH, Germany Partner
36. EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH, Switzerland Partner
37. WeAreStarting S.r.l., Italy Partner
38. STEINBEIS INNOVATION gGMBH, Germany Partner
39. NOESIS TECHNOLOGIES IKE, Greece Partner
40. DOMINA SRL, Italy Partner
41. GERG LE GROUPE EUROPEEN DE RECHERCHES GAZIERES, Belgium Partner
42. STARA GLASS SPA, Italy Partner
43. Glass Futures Ltd., United Kingdom Partner

Project Coordinator: Chiara Caccamo, Research Manager, SINTEF Energy Research Gas Technology Chiara.Caccamo@sintef.no