French firm to supply tubes for Norwegian CCS project

French tubular solutions provider Vallourec has won a contract to deliver some 200 km of tubes for umbilicals for a Norwegian carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, it said on July 27.

The super-duplex tubes were manufactured at Vallourec's new plant in Venarey-Les-Laumes early this year, and are to be incorporated into the umbilicals that will remotely control the CCS project's equipment on the seabed.

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"Being qualified for such CCUS projects, as demanding as offshore oil and gas applications, gives us a new opportunity to prove our tubes are highly efficient, reliable and competitive," Vallourec's managing director, Stephane Chrobot, said in a statement.

Norway's parliament last year approved funding for the Longship CCS scheme, which the government has described as the country's biggest ever climate project. The transport and storage part of the project is known as Northern Lights, and is led by Equinor, Shell and Total. It is expected to store up to 1.5mn metric tons/year of CO₂ from 2024 and up to 5mn mt/yr under a second stage.