Aker Solutions has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract by KN Energies to support the development of the company’s CO2 transshipment terminal infrastructure project in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
The project forms part of the CCS Baltic Consortium, which aims to develop the first cross-border carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCS) network in the Baltic region. The Klaipeda terminal infrastructure development is recognized as a project of common interest by the European Commission and is co-funded by the European Union under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for Energy programme.
The planned CO2 transshipment terminal in Klaipeda is expected to have a capacity of approximately 2.8 million tonnes of CO2 per year. The terminal will receive CO2 from industrial sources in Lithuania and Latvia, as well as across the wider Baltic region, for temporary storage before being transported by ship to long-term geological storage sites located beneath the seabed in the North Sea.
As part of the FEED, Aker Solutions will build upon findings from previous phase technical evaluations to further refine the technical design specification of the planned infrastructure as well as evaluate potential expansion routes for the development.
Aker Solutions has been designing and delivering CO2 infrastructure projects since the 1990s, with experience spanning the full CCS value chain, from carbon capture integration to CO2 transport, terminal and hub infrastructure, and permanent storage. As a systems integrator, the company continues to advance technical solutions that enable the efficient and scalable development of CCS.
'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 realizing this flagship project, which is of great importance to the Baltic region, as well as wider Europe,' said Henrik Inadomi, executive vice president of New Energies at Aker Solutions.
KN Energies is an international energy terminal operator enabling safe and reliable flows of liquid energy and liquefied natural gas across the Baltic Sea region.
'The successful procurement of a FEED contractor for Klaipeda liquid CO2 terminal marks an important milestone in CCS Baltic Consortium development and commitment of KN Energies to further increase maturity of this project of EU Common Interest. I am confident that by combining KN Energies’ proven global operational experience in marine cryogenic and liquid terminals management, with Aker Solutions’ deep engineering expertise – built across decades of delivering complex CO2, energy, and cryogenic infrastructure projects worldwide – places KN Energies in a strong position to provide efficient and scalable solutions for the Baltic region.
'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 decarbonization ambitions and enabling a fully integrated cross-border CO2 value chain,' said Linas Kilda, chief business development officer at KN Energies.
The FEED phase is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2026 and will involve more than 100 Aker Solutions employees from across Norway, India and the UK. The targeted commercial operational date for the Klaipeda CO2 terminal is 2030, with a final investment decision planned for 2027.
Source: Aker Solutions
