Maasvlakte CCS Project - ROAD

European CCS Demonstration Project Network Meeting

Rotterdam, May 10, 2011

Hans Schoenmakers

Project Director ROAD

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Power Plant StorageTransportCapture Plant

Permit to modify existing plant

Consents from landowners

Exploration permit

Drilling permits

Building permit capture plant

Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmental Permits

Permit to construct and operate power plant

Environmental Permits

Water abstraction license

Assessment of pipeline routing

Pipeline Works Authorisation

Environmental Impact Assessment

Storage permit

Consents from land owners

Permits for a CCS project

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Organization

PermittingCommunication &

Public

Engagement

Regulatory

Framework

Funding

Agreements

Knowledge

Dissemination

CaptureTransport &

Storage

Stakeholder

ManagementProject Office

ROAD

Board

Primarily relevant for permits

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The Maasvlakte CCS Project - ROAD

CO2

Storage into depleted

gas reservoirs

Maasvlakte Power Plant 3

CO2Capture

PlantOnshoreTransport Pipeline

P18 –A Platform

OffshoreTransport

Subsea Pipeline

5 km 20 km3,5 km

Compression and Cooling dehydration, O2-removal,

Metering

Start of CCS scope

This flow diagram is not on scale

Metering

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Locations and pipeline trace's

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Five steps:

1. Completing the overview of procedures

Getting an overview of the formal procedures, the authorities and the first estimate scheduling of the procedures (permits, including conditions for an EIA and spatial planning)

2. Preparing the documents

Draft versions prepared by the companies, aligned with technology and equipment supplier and reviewed by the authorities, to make sure the documents meet all requirements

3. Formal procedures

Authorities, including the EIA committee, consider/handle all submitted requests and after public consultation decide on the permit conditions and updated spatial planning

4. Since this whole chain is the first of its kind, the EIA committee has advised a preliminary check

(“Voortoets”) on completeness and compliance with earlier directions. This informal stage takes

additional time (2 months) but is also supported by ROAD

5. Legal procedures

After permits have been granted, legal procedures can be expected. Court procedures may take a long time but - taking the preparations into account - there is no fear of losing the permit

How to obtain the necessary environmental permits for an

offshore CCS Project

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Applicants environmental permits

Coordinated by

Capture Transpor

tStorage

Maasvlakte CCS Project (ROAD)

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The scheduling of the project is determined by several technical and non-technical

conditions:

�Starting date CCS operational 2015, first on-site building activities mid 2012

�Building period expected to be 2,5 years

�Period for result form legal procedures not clear

�FID when risks and requirements are 80-90% clear (permit must be acquired, but

need not to be irrevocable yet)

�Spatial planning adjustments by the authorities

Scheduling leaves uncertainties:

�Getting permits as quick as possible

�Feedback of parties involved (direct stakeholders and public) is required

�Authorities take the safe route

Scheduling issues

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Keeping the pressure on all parties involved

� Maintaining a very tight time schedule to motivate authorities to take action and

make decisions

� Starting with first rough draft versions to get feedback

� The tight time schedule of the Grant Agreement can be used to motivate parties

involved

Showing that the project does everything within its power to reach the deadlines.

� Take the initiative in all meetings

� Supporting authorities with technical help to fulfill their obligations

� Keep everybody involved and do not take over responsibilities

� Accept authorities taking the safe route (accuracy more important than speed!)

Scheduling – lessons learned

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Technical information

� The FEED (basic engineering) for the project was completed in an early stage.

However, not all technical (detailed) information (on emissions) was available

� Because this is the first time a large scale CCS project is designed, there are few

standards available (pilots give some information but are not always trustworthy

for scale-up)

� This means that it is difficult to fill in permit applications early in the procedure

� It would be more pragmatic to get permits and being allowed to adjust later on,

within established limits

Design issues

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Supporting the authorities

� There is substantial knowledge on CCS and the rules with the initiator. Sharing

this information with authorities leads to mutual understanding and a combined

idea of the way forward. This may seem clear from the start, but a lessons

learned is that this still takes a lot of time and number of meeting to achieve

� Resources are often lacking with the authorities. The more the initiator prepares

the better the authorities will be able to fulfill their commitments

� Agree on getting the permits in more general terms, keeping open the

opportunity to adjust when detailed design information is available (not always

possible and makes permit more vulnerable)

Permits Lessons learned

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ROAD’s Regulatory context and the storage permit

Four levels of regulation (for sub-surface CO2-storage)

•E.U. – Directive (and Guidelines)

•National Act (Amendment of Mijnbouw wet) (”Enabler”)

•Ministerial Decree (“Hook”)

•Storage permit (“Tailor Made”)