Petrofac to support North Sea Acorn gas-hydrogen options
June 10, 2020
Petrofac’s Engineering and Production Services business will support Pale Blue Dot Energy on two projects in northeast Scotland involving carbon capture and storage and conversion of North Sea gas to hydrogen.
(Courtesy Pale Blue Dot Energy)
Offshore staff
ABERDEEN, UK – Petrofac’s Engineering and Production Services business will support Pale Blue Dot Energy on two projects in northeast Scotland involving carbon capture and storage (CCS) and conversion of North Sea gas to hydrogen.
The company’s full work scope comprises provision of project management systems and technical assistance during FEED for Acorn CCS, and concept select for Acorn Hydrogen, both part of new developments planned at the St Fergus gas terminal near Peterhead.
Acorn CCS holds the first UK CO2 appraisal and storage license awarded by the Oil and Gas Authority, and is looking to develop CO2 mitigation infrastructure to help meet the Scottish and UK governments’ Net Zero targets.
With the Acorn Hydrogen project, natural gas from under the North Sea would be reformed into clean hydrogen, with CO2 emissions safely mitigated through the Acorn CCS infrastructure.
