Heidelberg Materials and partners launch GOCO2

Heidelberg Materials has announced its GOCO₂ (Grand Ouest CO₂) project with  jointly partners Elengy, Lafarge France, Heidelberg Materials France, GRT gas, Lhoist and Total Energies.

The project aims to capture and store up to 2.6Mta of CO₂ in western France. The project assumes that by 2050 as much as 4Mta of CO₂ will be stored. The project will involve Lafarge Cements  Saint-Pierre-la-Cour (Mayenne) plant and Heidelberg Material's in Airvault (Deux-Sèvres) plant, the lime plant of the Lhoist group in Neau (Mayenne) and the TotalEnergies refinery in Donges.

Captured CO₂ will be transported  via a large pipe to the Montoir-de-Bretagne LNG terminal to be liquefied there and then transhipped on board tankers which will transport it to final geological storage areas, off the coast of Norway or Denmark, under the North Sea.