Eni has contracted Saipem to manage a conversion program for the Liverpool Bay CCS (carbon capture and storage) project offshore/onshore north Wales and northwest England.
Work should take about three years to complete, with an estimated value to Saipem of about Eur52 million (US$59 million). The UK government recently gave Eni the go-ahead to proceed with the project, which will handle CO2 emitted by companies locally signed up to the HyNet industrial cluster.
Saipem will convert the gas compression and treatment facility at Point of Ayr, north Wales, which used to receive gas from the offshore Hamilton, Hamilton North, Lennox and North Douglas fields, to a CO2 electrical compression station.
This will enable permanent storage of the collected CO2 in the depleted fields beneath Liverpool Bay.
Saipem’s scope of work covers engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning support for the new electrical compression station.
