Norway’s Aker Solutions has secured a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a planned CO2 terminal in Klaipėda, a port city that is expected to connect Baltic industrial emitters with North Sea storage sites. The facility, led by terminal operator KN Energies, is designed to handle around 2.8 million tonnes of CO2 annually, aggregating captured CO2 from Lithuania, Latvia and the wider region before onward transport by sea.
The project forms part of the CCS Baltic Consortium, which aims to establish the region’s first cross-border carbon capture, transport and storage network. It has been designated a Project of Common Interest by the European Commission and is supported through the Connecting Europe Facility, reflecting its role in enabling CO2 transport across national boundaries.
The Klaipėda terminal is expected to receive CO2 from industrial sources including cement plants in Lithuania and Latvia, before loading volumes onto specialised carriers for transport to offshore geological storage sites. Similar models are being developed in Norway and the Netherlands, where shipping links capture sites with offshore storage.
Linas Kilda, chief business development officer at KN Energies, said: ‘As the terminal advances into the FEED stage, KN Energies is reinforcing its commitment to providing reliable, safe, and customer-centric CO2 logistics services for industrial emitters in both Latvia and Lithuania – supporting regional decarbonisation ambitions and enabling a fully integrated cross-border CO2 value chain.’
Completion of the FEED phase is targeted for the third quarter of 2026. A final investment decision is expected in 2027, with commercial operations planned for 2030. These timelines are consistent with other large-scale CCS infrastructure projects, where project development depends on regulatory frameworks, funding structures and confirmed CO2 volumes.
Henrik Inadomi, executive vice president of New Energies at Aker Solutions, commented: ‘Building on more than 30 years of CCS experience, as well as learnings from first-of-a-kind projects such as Northern Lights, Brevik and Oslo CCS, we are proud to support KN Energies in realising this flagship project, which is of great importance to the Baltic region, as well as wider Europe.’
The project is indicative of the potential demand growth for LCO2 carriers and associated port infrastructure. As additional capture projects are developed in regions without access to storage, aggregation hubs, such as Klaipėda, may be required to consolidate volumes and support viable shipping routes.
