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Is it possible to store carbon dioxide more than a kilometer down beneath the seabed off the coast of Skåne?

To investigate the conditions, the Swedish Geological Survey (SGU) is now initiating test drilling in Smygehamn in Trelleborg Municipality. With the help of a drilling rig, drilling will be carried out down to a depth of 1,500 meters to retrieve core samples.

South of Gotland and south of Skåne, there is sandstone deep in the bedrock, a sedimentary rock type considered suitable as a storage site, so-called reservoir, for carbon dioxide.

"Drilling on land is significantly less complicated and cheaper compared to drilling at sea," notes Lena Yotis, project leader for the government assignment, in a press release from SGU.

The drilling in Smygehamn will continue until November. A similar investigation was previously conducted on Gotland.

Corrected: An earlier formulation about the government's investment in bio-CSS has been removed from the text.