Porthos and Beyond: The Critical Importance of Carbon Capture and Storage Projects for Dutch Climate Goals

The document highlights the necessity of CCS for the Netherlands to meet its goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030 and 95% by 2050. It focuses on the Porthos project, which will transport and store CO2 from the Port of Rotterdam in empty North Sea gas fields, potentially reducing 2.5 Mt of CO2 per year. Porthos is presented as a first-mover project that can unlock further emissions reductions in the Netherlands and Europe.

• The Netherlands has established climate targets to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030 and 95% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels, with the industrial sector specifically required to reduce emissions by 60% by 2030.
• Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is critical for meeting Dutch climate goals; the 2022 Klimaatnota indicates that CCS will account for over 50% of all scope 1 industrial emission reductions by 2030.
• The Porthos project will capture CO2 from the Port of Rotterdam, transport it via pipeline to platform P18-A in the Dutch North Sea, and store it in empty gas fields (P18-2, P18-4, and P18-6) more than 3km under the seabed.
• Porthos is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 2.5 Mt per year, totaling 37 Mt over 15 years, and is projected to address 11% of the Port of Rotterdam's total CO2 emissions.
• The Porthos project's business case for customers was enabled by the SDE++ policy, which covers the cost difference between CCS operations and the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) price.

APA

Clean Air Task Force (2022). Porthos and Beyond: The Critical Importance of Carbon Capture and Storage Projects for Dutch Climate Goals. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20091740/CATF_PorthosFactsheet_English_02.27.23.pdf

Chicago

Clean Air Task Force. Porthos and Beyond: The Critical Importance of Carbon Capture and Storage Projects for Dutch Climate Goals. 2022. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20091740/CATF_PorthosFactsheet_English_02.27.23.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{cleanairtaskforce2022porthos, author = {{Clean Air Task Force}}, title = {{Porthos and Beyond: The Critical Importance of Carbon Capture and Storage Projects for Dutch Climate Goals}}, institution = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2022}, month = dec, url = {https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20091740/CATF_PorthosFactsheet_English_02.27.23.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }