The CCUS industry has many years’ experience of transporting and storing CO₂. The Sleipner CO₂ storage project in Norway was established in 1996 and is one of the world’s first projects dedicated solely to large scale CO₂ capture and permanent storage. The Sleipner project has now safely and permanently stored more than 20 MtCO₂ and continues to sequester over 1 million tonnes of CO₂ each year in a deep saline formation under the Norwegian North Sea.
Expertise gained from the oil and gas sector is being applied to the CCUS sector. Decades of subsurface knowledge is now being used for CO2 storage purposes, with skilled jobs transferring from the fossil fuel industry to the low-carbon economy.