Offshore staff
MILAN, Italy — Eni UK has submitted through the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) system a carbon storage license application for the Hewett depleted gas field on the Southern North Sea for the development of a CCS project aimed at decarbonizing the Bacton and Thames Estuary area.
The Hewett depleted gas field is an ideal site for permanent and safe CO2 storage with a total capacity of about 330 million tonnes.
The CCS project will allow to avoid a significant volume of CO2 to the atmosphere, equivalent to the CO2 emissions of more than three million homes or more than six million cars per year.
Eni UK can leverage its extensive experience and subsurface knowledge of the Hewett depleted gas field, having operated safely the gas production in the area for more than 40 years.
In addition, Eni UK announces the set up of the Bacton Thames Net Zero initiative with the aim to decarbonize and to unlock new greener growth opportunities for the automotive, ceramics, food, materials, energy and waste disposal sectors in the UK Southeast, supporting materially the UK’s decarbonization strategy.
Eni UK will play a pivotal role in this industry-led initiative by transporting and storing CO2 in its Hewett depleted gas field, which could be operational as early as 2027.
Eni UK will provide further added value to this initiative by leveraging on the ongoing technical and commercial experience gained from Liverpool Bay CCS and the wider HyNet NW Cluster, as an existing CO2 appraisal and storage license holder.
The collaboration of industrial partners under the Bacton Thames Net Zero initiative could contribute significantly to the development of a hydrogen economy in the UK and become a game changer in addressing the decarbonization needs of UK’s Southeast, while supporting the UK net-zero targets.
09.21.2022
