Company/Alliance: Statoil
Location:. Norway, North Sea.
Start Date: 1996
Size: 1 Mt/ Yr
CO2 Source: Gas Processing. (Produced hydrocarbons have 9% CO2 which is removed before shipment to onshore).
Storage: Deep Saline Reservoir 1000m Below sea floor.
Motivation/Economics: Sleipner was built in order to evade the 1991 Norwegian CO2 tax. Sleipner obtains CO2 credit and does not pay the tax.
Comments: Sleipner was the world's first commercial CO2 storage project. It has so far stored 8-9MT of CO2. There is no evidence of CO2 leakage and the CO2 remains insitu. CO2 capture is done using Amine techonolgy. Injection currently costs $17 US / Tonne CO2.
Project Link: Sleipner Statoil project website
Other Sources and Press Release:
Sleipner case study
Sleipner Tax Motivation
CO2 Monitoring (Feb 2004) [PDF]
CO2 storage security (Feb 2007) [PDF]
Statoil Sleipner and Snovit ppt (2006) [PDF]
