Majors team with UK’s National Grid for North Sea CO2 storage project
Offshore staff
LONDON – bp, Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell, and Total have jointly formed the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), to develop offshore carbon dioxide (CO2) transport and storage infrastructure in the UK North Sea.
Under the development, which bp will operate, the infrastructure will serve the proposed Net Zero Teesside (NZT) and Zero Carbon Humber (ZCH) projects that aim to establish decarbonized industrial clusters in Teesside and Humberside on the coast of northeast England. Both projects could be commissioned by 2026, targeting net zero emissions potentially by 2030 through a combination of carbon capture, hydrogen and fuel-switching.
If successful, NEP, working in tandem with NZT and ZCH, could achieve de-carbonization of almost 50% of the UK’s industrial emissions, bp claimed. NEP has submitted a bid for funds through Phase 2 of the UK government’s £170-million ($222-million) Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge.
This aims to hasten development of an offshore pipeline network to transport captured CO2 emissions from both NZT and ZCH to offshore geological storage beneath the UK North Sea. The application follows approval by the Oil and Gas Authority for bp and Equinor joining the National Grid in the Endurance carbon storage licence.
They believe the Endurance reservoir is the most mature large-scale saline aquifer suited to CO2 storage in the offshore UK continental shelf.
10/26/2020
