By rosebell
The responsibility og completing the front-end-engineering design (FEED) for technical tunneling work on a carbon capture and storage (CCS) pipeline in The Netherlands, was up to Arup.
With intention of contributing to the reduction of CO₂ emissions for hard-to-abate industries, the Aramis project will transport CO₂ and store it in depleted offshore gas fields under the North Sea, and its location on the Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam makes the CO₂ transport and storage service accessible to various industrial clusters.
Involving onshore, landfall as well as offshore sections, together with the offshore CO2 distribution hub platform, energy services company Petrofac has overall responsibility for the FEED for the 81cm diameter CO2 trunkline.
In order to delivering the project’s pipeline landfall tunnel, Arup provided in-depth design definition to enable the tendering of an engineering, procurement and construction contract. The duty of this company is to overcome several construction and ground condition challenges, including how to retrieve the TBM once construction of the tunnel is complete.
Linking to the remaining pipeline to be laid within the seabed, the new pipeline is going to span sensitive assets, including one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
According to Mark Neller, energy leader, UKIMEA at Arup: “The Aramis project was an important step in the development of CCS systems in Europe. Arup’s expertise was integral to the design of the 2km trenchless undersea tunnel from the Port of Rotterdam. The multidisciplinary nature of our team meant we contributed to project components across the engineering spectrum.”
“The tunnel design would be a critical success factor in many of the fast-emerging global CCS projects, particularly as globally interconnected infrastructure for CO2 transport and storage continued to emerge,” said Arup’s global carbon capture and storage lead, Jemima Bruin-Bland.
