Offshore spur line part of North Sea Viking CCS proposals

Offshore staff

LONDON — Harbour Energy has issued a report on its planned Viking CCS CO₂ transport and storage project offshore/onshore the Humber region of northeast England.

This could deliver up to £7 billion ($8.51 billion) of investment across the CO₂ capture, transport and storage value chain from 2025 to 2035 and support development of new local infrastructure over the next decade, creating up to 10,000 new jobs during its construction.

Part of the infrastructure for the carbon capture and storage (CCS transportation is already in place), is a high-capacity offshore pipeline formerly used to transport gas from the now depleted Viking fields, developed by ConocoPhillips, to the former Theddlethorpe gas terminal.

Harbour plans to repurpose the pipeline for transporting CO₂ to the offshore storage site and commission a new spur line to take the CO₂ for the final 20 km of its journey for storage in the low-pressure, subsurface reservoirs.

Finally, it plans to install a new 55-km onshore buried pipeline connecting the Immingham industrial cluster to the Theddlethorpe terminal; this pipeline is currently progressing through the Development Consent Order process.

ERCE’s Competent Person’s Report on the storage capacity of the Viking CCS project has confirmed Harbour’s estimate of 300 MM metric tons of storage capacity.

Graeme Davies, Harbour’s Viking CCS project director, said, “Alongside our cluster members, we have a clear pathway to delivering one-third of the UK’s carbon capture target of up to 30 million tonnes by 2030. We encourage the UK government to act swiftly and announce its plans for the Track-2 cluster sequencing process.”

03.14.2023