The CCS sector is expanding rapidly offshore Norway, but meeting Europe’s decarbonization targets will require a scale‑up to about 500 Mt CO₂ per year by 2050 – two orders of magnitude above current confirmed capacity.

Experience has shown that each individual project will create a pressurized zone that spreads outward over time. If neighboring projects come in each other’s way, it will be hard for each project to achieve their targeted injection rates. Regulators certainly want to avoid a situation where competing strategies create sub-optimal conditions for new satellite storage, making it hard to achieve regional targets.

The ExpReCCS project targets research questions related to this topic.