It is a blessing, that, the world now is aware of the consequences of climate change & global warming, when Denmark came forward to inaugurate a project to bury imported CO2, 1800 meters beneath the North Sea 🌊. The first country in the world to come forward to lessen the effect of global warming, and soon other European nations will follow the steps of Denmark to around 30 projects in (CCS)= carbon capture and storage. The “Greensand” project comprised of the British chemical giant, Ineos, and German oil company, Wintershall Dea; is supposed to store up to 8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year till 2030, ie. 56 million tonnes of CO2, buried in undersea bed till 2030. This will lead to a huge amount of lessening of global warming by then, and a great healing touch to the world. 
Danish authorities are planning to hit carbon neutrality by 2045. They are also saying that ,this, is a much-needed tool in our climate toolkit, that will enable us reach our goals. Since our subsoil has a more storage ability than our total emissions, and we have a capacity of store of imported CO2 from other countries as well, we will commit to our responsibility, the climate minister, Lars Aagaard propounded.
The North Sea is particularly suitable for such an operation, because of the depleted oil and gas fields from decades of production of oils and gases, now leaving underground pipelines and potential storage sites, which can be reused for CO2 burying purposes, in the existing infrastructures, said Morten Jeppesen, director of the Danish Offshore Technology Centre at the Technical University of Denmark. (DTU).
The process involves the capture of CO2 at the source site of emission at industrial emission points. Then liquefying the CO2 and storing in containers or transmitting it through pipelines to the undersea reservoirs. Even at times, the containers are transported by vessels, to oil fields for storage by pipelines.
An Aurora Storm supply vessel at the port of Esbjerg, ready to transport captured CO2 for the Greensand Project, an offshore storage project.
In the neighborhood of Norway 🇳🇴, carbo-capture and storage are already proceeding at a fair pace to reduce the risk of domestic emissions, yet, the country is ready to receive tonnes of liquefied CO2 transported by ship from Europe in a few years. Norway possesses the largest potential for CO2 storage on the continent because, Norway is the largest producer of oil in the Western Europe region, hence, is gifted with vast depleted oil fields, now getting ready for the CO2 graveyard.
At the end, when our alert and aware nations are performing such a huge painstaking work to reduce our global warming, moreover nothing is done on an easy choice basis. It is sure to eventually reap a very successful and fruitful result in gifting our world with some more years of optimal global warming conditions, which will see some growth of nature, habitat, and some extinct species due to climate optimization and global optimal warming conditions, compared to the present excited state of global conditions. Let us hope it is high time we all get aware and keep individual carbon emissions at the limit; so that the huge task taken to bury the CO2 to heal the atmosphere becomes a boon, Amen.
Subir Kumar Ghosh.
