TotalEnergies-led trio authorized to assess North Sea Inez area for CO2 storage

The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has issued a six-year exploration permit to a consortium of TotalEnergies, Mitsui and Nordsøfonden for potential storage of CO₂ beneath the North Sea.

The location covers the subsurface in the coastal area of Inez, about 50 km from the coast of Thyboron.

It follows a tender round for three delimited areas offshore the coast of northern Jutland in western Denmark: Inez, Lisa and Jammerbugt.

The DEA said it has now granted four offshore permits for exploration of CO₂ storage in Denmark.

TotalEnergies and its partners will initially perform studies to determine whether the Inez area is suitable for safe and environmentally sound storage of CO₂. If their findings support this scenario, they will be allowed to proceed with a storage project.

Last month, the agency approved the first full-scale CO₂ storage facility in the depleted Nini West Field in the Danish North Sea, for INEOS and its partners.