Rhône CO2

03 June 2024

Rhône CO2, a CO₂ transport network and a liquefaction and export terminal for the Rhône Valley, is an infrastructure project designed to decarbonise the industrial sector in the Rhône Valley, promoted by Société du Pipeline Sud-Européen (SPSE) and Elengy.

Call for expression of interest

Société du Pipeline Sud-Européen (SPSE) and Elengy are providing industrial companies based in the Rhône Valley with the information they need to respond to their call for expressions of interest (AMI) to promote the emergence of the ‘Rhône CO2’ project, a project to transport, liquefy and export CO₂ from industrial sources, with a view to its permanent geological storage or use (CCUS).

The Call for expression of interest will allow to identify CO2 emitters and CCU project sponsors who are interested in and ready to commit to the development of the Rhône CO2 Project and its infrastructures up to 2030.

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Bringing this project into service would reduce CO₂ emissions by 4 million tonnes a year by 2030.

The aim of the Rhône CO2 Project is to develop a set of infrastructures enabling CO₂captured by industrial sites to be transported either to the CO₂ liquefaction and export terminal on the existing Fos Tonkin terminal, for export of liquid CO₂ to permanent geological storage areas as part of the emerging CCS chain; or to CO₂ recovery sites, as part of the emerging CCU chain, along the Rhône valley.

The Rhône CO2 Project is part of the French government's CCS strategy (France 2030) and the Syrius programme, which won the ZIBAC call for projects. It represents a concrete and ambitious commitment to accelerate the decarbonisation of industrial sites in the Rhône Valley.
SPSE and Elengy, promoters of the Rhône CO2 project, are also participating as promoters in the Franco-Italian Callisto Project of Common Interest (PCI), which has been included in the European Union's 6th list of projects, to be made official in April 2024.

A local projet

Perfectly integrated into the local ecosystem, it benefits in part from existing infrastructure along the Rhône Valley and within the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille (GPMM). It will eventually be able to transport CO₂ emissions from industrial plants in the Rhône Valley and the Fos-sur-Mer industrial port area, or biogenic CO₂ from various industrial processes. It will also help to attract new industrial sites to the region by providing access to a decarbonisation infrastructure.

Reduction of industrial emissions by 4,0 MtCO₂/year.

Capture of a majority of unavoidable emissions that cannot be reduced by other measures.

Decarbonising key industrial activities in the region.

Infrastructure that will eventually enable the development of a Carbon Capture and Usage (CCU) activity.

Rhône CO2 terminal

The future Fos Tonking terminal