Offshore staff
ABERDEEN, UK — The Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) has revealed the 20 companies that will receive funding under its 2022 Open Innovation Program.
This year the focus was on developing and deploying technologies to cut offshore emissions, accelerate clean energy production and support the UK’s net-zero ambitions.
There were 154 companies worldwide that applied for a share of the £8 million (US$8.8 million) available, with the winning technologies related to seven focus areas:
- Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS);
- Hydrogen and clean fuels;
- Renewables and energy storage;
- Zero emissions power;
- Venting and flaring;
- Integrity management; and
- Late life and decommissioning.
NZTC’s next funding competition, due to open in January 2023, will focus on digital and data architecture, smart assets and field automation.
Myrtle Dawes, NZTC solution center director, said, “We are investing in the areas where we know technology gaps exist and where the opportunity is substantial in accelerating the energy transition.”
The 20 successful technology projects will deliver £7.8 billion (US$8.6 billion)GVA along with an impact of 3.1Mt CO2e annually.
20 successful applicants
1. CeraPhi Energy: Onshore field trial/demonstration of heat and energy production via geothermal techniques
2. WellDecommissioned: AI-based software solution for use in the planning and optimization of decommissioning activities
3. Sulmara: Remote data acquisition and intelligence service for offshore energy decommissioning via a fully unmanned, over-the-horizon surface vessel capable of gathering data real time
4. isol8: Composite alloy barrier material (AlloyCrete) providing long-term well integrity assurance
5. Pipetech: Downhole scale remediation tool for the cleaning of hydrocarbon wells
6. Copsys Technologies: Intelligent Digital Skin paint-based technology to detect and locate corrosion under insulation (CUI)
7. SubTeraNDT: Handheld Millimeter Wave CUI inspection system
8. Advance Hall Sensors: QWHE camera providing high-resolution, non-contact magnetic imaging of CUI
9. Expro: Development and field trial of a real-time flare emissions measurement and control system
10. Expro: SmarTest flare-free closed chamber formation testing—downhole telemetry for the collection of reservoir data and fluid samples
11. HiiROC in partnership with Centrica: Decarbonizing gas peakers through hydrogen and CO2 sequestration through solidcCarbon
12. Innovatium Group: PRISMA liquid air battery combining compressed air production and energy storage in the form of highly energy dense liquified air
13. Enertechno: Marinization of capacitive transfer system cable for use in electrification of the North Sea and offshore windfarms
14. Ceimig: (Hydrogen). Development and testing of supported iridium catalysts for polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) electrodes and of a substrate to reduce the amount of iridium required
15. Oort Energy: An integrated electrolyzer and electrochemical compression stack for green hydrogen production
16. B9 Technologies: Demo of a flow-field electrolyzer for low-cost hydrogen production
17. Ai Exploration: Multispectral imaging corrosion sensor for carbon capture and storage (CCS)
18. Pace CCS: Software/modeling system to predict the corrosion risk to CCS pipelines
19. Heriot-Watt University: Modeling tool to analyze and predict the leakage wells in CCS fields
20. WesternGeco: A passive seismic and surface-deployed distributed acoustic sensing monitoring system for CCUS applications.
10.10.2022
