The Costs of CO2 Transport
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The Costs of CO2 Transport Post-demonstration CCS in the EU This document has been prepared on behalf of the Advisory Council of the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants. The information and views contained in this document are the collective view of the Advisory Council and not of individual members, or of the European Commission. Neither the Advisory Council, the European Commission, nor any person acting on their behalf, is responsible for the use that might be made of the information contained in this publication. 2 Contents Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................................5 1 Study on CO2 Transport Costs ................................................................................................................8 1.1 Background .....................................................................................................................................8 1.2 Use of new, in-house data ..............................................................................................................8 1.3 Literature and references ................................................................................................................9 1.4 Reader’s guide to the report .............................................................................................................10 2 General CCS Assumptions....................................................................................................................11 2.1 Production volumes.......................................................................................................................11 2.2 Currency and interest rates...........................................................................................................11 2.3 Project lifetime...............................................................................................................................11 2.4 Choice of material .........................................................................................................................11 2.5 Cost of energy...............................................................................................................................11 2.6 Transport cost boundaries ............................................................................................................12 3 Transport Module Descriptions..............................................................................................................13 3.1 Pipeline transport of CO2...............................................................................................................13 3.2 Offshore pipelines .........................................................................................................................14 3.3 Onshore pipelines .........................................................................................................................15 3.4 Ship transport................................................................................................................................16 3.5 Conditioning for transport..............................................................................................................17 3.5.1 Conditioning for offshore pipeline transport ..............................................................................18 3.5.2 Conditioning for onshore pipeline transport ..............................................................................18 3.5.3 Liquefaction for ship transport...................................................................................................18 3.6 Transport module cost estimates ..................................................................................................19 4 Transport Specific Assumptions ............................................................................................................20 4.1 Pipelines........................................................................................................................................20 4.2 Offshore pipelines .........................................................................................................................20 4.3 Onshore pipelines .........................................................................................................................22 4.4 Ship transport................................................................................................................................24 4.5 Conditioning for transport..............................................................................................................26 4.6 Construction period interest ..........................................................................................................27 5 Transport Networks................................................................................................................................28 5.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................28 5.2 Demonstration phase ....................................................................................................................29 5.3 Base cases....................................................................................................................................29 5.4 Networks .......................................................................................................................................29 6 Results by Network................................................................................................................................31 6.1 Network 1 ......................................................................................................................................31 6.2 Network 2 ......................................................................................................................................32 6.3 Network 3 ......................................................................................................................................33 6.4 Network 4 ......................................................................................................................................34 6.5 Network 5 ......................................................................................................................................34 6.6 Network 6 ......................................................................................................................................34 6.7 Comparison of costs for Networks 4, 5 and 6 ...............................................................................35 6.8 Network 7 ......................................................................................................................................36 6.9 Network 8 ......................................................................................................................................37 6.10 Network cost overview ..................................................................................................................38 3 7 Cost Estimate Ranges ...........................................................................................................................40 7.1 Uncertainties .................................................................................................................................40 7.2 Sensitivities ...................................................................................................................................41 7.2.1 Key sensitivities.........................................................................................................................41 7.2.2 Risk ...........................................................................................................................................44 7.2.3 Volume ramp-up sensitivity .......................................................................................................44 8 Next Steps .............................................................................................................................................46 9 Acknowledgements................................................................................................................................47 9.1 Working Group participants and organisations .............................................................................47 9.2 Review partners ............................................................................................................................47 References....................................................................................................................................................48 Glossary........................................................................................................................................................49 Annexes Annex 1: CO2 Phase Diagram ......................................................................................................................50 Annex 2: List of Tables and Figures .............................................................................................................51 Annex 3: Transport Module Costs ................................................................................................................52 4 Executive Summary Founded in 2005 on the initiative of the European Commission,