NSTA awards UK carbon storage license to Synergia, Wintershall Dea

Offshore staff

PERTH, Australia — Britain’s North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has offered the Synergia Energy/Wintershall Dea partnership a carbon storage license, the 21^st offer issued under the UK’s first carbon storage licensing round, which closed last September.

All applications have now been assessed as part of the process.

Synergia Energy will operate the Camelot license, which is connected with the proposed Medway Hub Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project onshore/offshore northern Kent in southeast England.

This is designed to capture and transport CO₂ emissions in liquid CO₂ form from the exhaust streams of three coastal combined cycle gas turbine power stations on the Isle of Grain (Medway, Damhead and Grain) via a marine tanker to a floating injection, storage and offloading vessel.

Here the CO₂ would be injected into depleted gas fields and saline aquifers in the UK North Sea for permanent sequestration.

The license’s work program comprises an appraisal phase (seismic reprocessing, technical evaluations and risk assessment); a contingent FEED study ahead of a potential storage license application in 2028 following FID; and a possible appraisal well.

Axis Well Technology completed a pre-FEED study for the project in January 2022.

Wintershall Dea brings experience of North Sea CCS projects in progress offshore Norway and Denmark.

06.28.2023