Visit the North Sea oil field used to store greenhouse gas1 day agoShareSaveAdrienne MurrayTechnology Reporter, Esbjerg, DenmarkShareSaveIneos EnergyThe Siri platform is the hub for the Greensand Future project"Prepare for an offshore landing," the pilot announces, before landing on a platform 250km (155 miles) from Denmark's west coast.The helicopter has just circled around Nini, a nearby rig rising up from the choppy waters of the North Sea.The rig sits over an almost-depleted oilfield that's about to get a second life as a massive carbon storage project called Greensand Future.The plan is to pump thousands of tonnes of climate-warming CO2 into the old oil field.We step on to Siri, a larger "mother platform" that has a control centre manned by offshore workers. Mads Gade, CEO of Ineos Energy points to the huge pipes of the wellhead which, for decades, carried oil and gas up from below the seabed."Instead of pulling the oil and gas up from the ground, we're going to inject the CO2 into the ground instead," he says.Ineos EnergyMads Gade runs Ineos Energy which is leading the consortium behind Greensand FutureCarbon Capture and Storage technology (CCS), involves capturing and permanently storing carbon dioxide.Greensands Future, which is backed by a consortium led by British multinational chemicals company Ineos, will become the EU's first large-scale offshore CO2 storage site, when commercial operations get underway in the next few months.The plan is to stash away around 400,
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