RICE is proud to announce GRTgaz's participation in the @COREu (CO₂ Routes across Europe) project, the largest research project funded by the Horizon Europe program in the field of carbon capture and storage (CCS). With a budget of around 36 million euros, including some 30 million in European Union subsidies, COREu brings together CCS players to massively deploy CCS technologies in Europe.
Carbon capture and storage is crucial to achieving Europe's decarbonization objectives. The COREu project, which runs from January 2024 to December 2027, aims to create an efficient cross-border network linking major CO₂ emitters to storage sites spread across Europe.
The kick-off meeting, held in Trondheim (Norway) in early 2024, brought together the 43 partners in this unique consortium of industrial companies, research institutes and technology providers from 11 European countries. They detailed the work plan, covering technological advances, the creation of three CO2 routes and a CO2 storage demonstration site in Greece.
COREu will help accelerate CCS deployment by proving the safety and efficiency of CO₂ transport and storage infrastructures. There are three key objectives:
Among the project's major innovations are technologies such as advanced transport tanks, simulation tools to assess storage site capacity, and autonomous underwater drones to monitor potential CO₂ leak risks. COREu also plans to identify four new CO₂ transport routes in Greece, the Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine, with ambitious targets: to reduce CO₂ emissions by 6.8 million tonnes by 2035, and 36 million tonnes by 2050.
GRTgaz's involvement with RICE's expertise
As the only French partner, GRTgaz plays a leading role in Work Package 2 (WP2) "Core technologies". GRTgaz is mobilizing the teams at RICE, its research center, to work on the safety of CO₂ transmission networks and the metrology of CO₂ flows. GRTgaz's involvement also extends to infrastructure optimization in WP4 and the regulatory and political aspects of CCS in Europe in WP5.
European collaboration for the future
Thanks to a varied ecosystem of expertise ranging from academic research to industrial technologies, COREu will establish a framework facilitating the large-scale development of CCS. The project is coordinated by SINTEF, a major player in CCS research for over 20 years.
This project, co-funded by the European Union, embodies the cooperation needed to build a more sustainable future, while laying the foundations for a carbon-neutral economy.
To find out more, visit the project's dedicated website: https: //coreu.eu/
