The government poured Nkr1.2 billion ($200 million) into the project at a gas power plant at the Statoil refinery before it was halted.
Tord Lien, Norway’s Minister of Petroleum & Energy, said in March the six-month-old government was committed to at least one full-scale carbon capture pilot plant by 2020. However, details promised for this spring have not been forthcoming.
Marika Andersen, European Union policy adviser at Norwegian environmental group Bellona, says there are hopes that parliament’s recent decision to set a 2020 deadline for electrifying gas fields in the Utsira formation could spur a decision to press ahead with a CCS project on a gas power plant at Kaarsto, which would capture and store 1.2
