The NextFuel consortium successfully held its Annual Meeting in Bergen on 18–19 November 2025, bringing together partners from Molgas Energy, FlexFuels, CERTH, WEGEMT, NTNU, and TOPSOE. The meeting opened with a full workshop at Hotel Norge, where each Work Package leader presented progress, achievements, and planned activities for the upcoming year. The sessions provided a productive platform for exchange, coordination, and strategic planning across all work packages.
On the second day, the consortium visited the Kollsnes industrial site, including Northern Lights (which is a JV of Equinor, Shell and Total Energies) carbon transport and storage facilities, the Gasnor/Molgas LNG plant, and the FlexFuels site. Topsoe, technology partner for the process modules consisting of eREACT-based syngas generation and downstream methanol process, were pleased to see that FlexFuels have chosen a plant site with very suitable infrastructure and required utility provisions well planned up to this point in time. These technical visits offered valuable insights into the infrastructures supporting NextFuel’s objectives and fostered constructive discussions on future developments.
To further highlight partner perspectives from these visits:
FlexFuels – Many in the consortium had not previously visited the plant site, and it was a pleasure to guide the group through the facilities and the surrounding activities.
Molgas – We were delighted to welcome the group to our LNG plant, which is ideally situated next to the FlexFuels methanol plant site.
NTNU – We greatly value our discussions with industry partners; their input is essential for developing realistic and impactful simulation approaches.
TOPSOE – We welcome this opportunity to advance the industrialisation of our eREACT solution and explore how it will be deployed in the planned FlexFuels plant.
Thank you to all partners for their active participation, collaboration, and continued commitment to driving the NextFuel project forward under Horizon Europe. Your contributions are vital to our shared progress.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 101136225.
