Centrica engages Exceed for North Sea Rough hydrogen study

Centrica Energy Storage (CES+) has selected Exceed as a Tier 1 partner, alongside Wood, for front-end engineering for the redevelopment of the Rough gas field in the southern UK North Sea.

RougH2 is the UK’s largest gas storage facility, and it could be adapted to provide hydrogen-ready facilities that would enable storage of up to 260 Bcf of gas.

Under the FEED contract, Exceed will perform multi-discipline subsurface engineering, field redevelopment planning and delivery, and well project management of the design.

It follows the company’s completion of the Rough redevelopment engineering pre-FEED phase and a recent eight-month carbon capture and storage pre-FEED transition engineering study in support of Centrica/Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Net Zero cluster in the East Irish Sea offshore north-west England.

The CES+ RougH2 redevelopment is presently in the pre-sanction “define" stage.