Pioneering technology to deliver secure energy – and reduce emissions

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In this issue: voyage to the bottom of the sea to discover the pioneering project unlocking energy for Europe; step inside the world’s first commercial carbon transport and storage service in Norway; explore what's next for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in The Energy Podcast; and drop in on Whale, Shell’s most efficient platform in the Gulf of America to date, which has reached full production just five months after start-up.

Into the deep: the ground-breaking technology transforming gas production at Ormen Lange

The world’s deepest subsea compression system, located at a record distance from shore, will boost energy supplies from a Norwegian gas field to homes and businesses across Europe. Read more

Following the Northern Lights

Innovation and collaboration created the world’s first commercial carbon transport and storage service in Norway. So how does it work? A guide to a pioneering project

What’s next for carbon capture and storage technology?

Shell’s Vice President for CCS, Bernhard Koudelka, joins The Energy Podcast for a discussion of the role of CCS in decarbonising heavy industry – and the challenges of scaling it up to the level the world needs. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube

In case you missed it…

• Shell has decided not to restart construction of its planned biofuels facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

• For even more insights on CCS, watch or listen to a bonus episode of The Energy Podcast with Lise Winther from global crop nutrition company Yara – one of the Northern Lights project’s first customers.

• Shell’s work with the Doig River First Nation community in Canada is helping to reforest barren land 100 km north of its Groundbirch natural gas operations that supply LNG Canada.

Spotlight

Just five months after start-up, Whale – Shell’s most efficient oil and gas platform in the Gulf of America to date – has reached full production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. That’s enough to fuel the daily journeys of 2.7 million cars in the USA. The platform replicates the simplified, cost-efficient design of Vito, which began production in 2023.

Read more about Whale

Cautionary note