Development of CCUS value chain scenarios in northern Poland

In CCUS ZEN project one of value chains considered includes emission sources located in the region of northern Poland. The value chain is intertwined with the scope of ECO 2 CEE Project of Common Interest on CO 2 terminal in Port of Gdańsk. The ECO 2 CEE project in its first stage is to include railway transport of CO 2 captured in two of the installations of the studied value chain. Carbon dioxide delivered to the terminal is to be transported by ship and stored under North Sea. However, within the region and its immediate vicinity there is notable storage potential. About 120 km north of Gdańsk, offshore, there is saline aquifer in Cambrian sandstones of storage capacity likely sufficient to store emissions of all selected 16 emitters of the region. The main barrier to such approach is the interpretation of Article 11 of Helsinki Convention suggesting ban of CO 2 storage under the Baltic Sea. In southern part of the region where also ECO 2 CEE emitters are located there are several saline aquifer structures in Lower Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of estimated storage capacity significantly exceeding the possible demand of emitters of the local cluster. Hence, the work is to propose the further development of the PCI value chain in northern Poland, beyond the original concept.