EVOL: CCS cash, North Sea nonsense and Bernard is back
CCS forges ahead in the UK as the North Sea oil and gas sector continues to change shape and former BP CEO Bernard Looney returns.
Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP)
Wood and Costain celebrate ‘monumental’ £4bn Teesside CCS bonanza
UK firms Costain Group (LON:COST) and Wood (LON:WG) have hailed the "monumental" projects starting after two landmark carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the North East of England got support to go ahead Tuesday.
NSTA boss: UK leads the way in net zero jobs boom
North Sea Transition Authority CEO Stuart Payne discusses firing the "starting gun" on UK carbon capture storage.
Judge rejects high court challenge over new gas power plant
An environmental consultant has lost a High Court challenge against the Government’s approval of a new gas power station in north-east England.
CCUS projects ‘exceeded’ targets as UK ‘on track’ to be a low-carbon leader
The policy brains behind the UK’s carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) clusters have hailed progress towards ambitions to make Great Britain a world leader in the technology despite deep concerns about delays in the projects.
Biggest UK carbon emitter Drax receives £550m in green subsidies per year
The Drax power station in Yorkshire receives £550 million per year in green subsidies despite being the largest single carbon emitter in the UK, a report has found.
Wood, TechnipFMC and more win £4bn Teesside net zero contracts
Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) and the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) have dished out contracts with a combined value of around £4 billion.
UK approves Drax plans for bioenergy CCS project in Yorkshire
Carbon emissions captured from the Drax Power Station bioenergy units will be stored offshore as part of the Northern Endurance Partnership CCS project led by BP and Equinor.
Delays pose ‘significant risk’ to UK CCS targets
A new report on UK carbon capture and storage (CCS) progress finds its ample pipeline and sound ambition could yet be undermined by the risk of delays and cancellations.
BP-Orsted project overlap ‘not feasible’, developers say
A dispute between BP and Orsted over an area of seabed earmarked for both carbon storage and offshore wind is set to come to a head this year as both approach key milestones.
CCS: the 1,000-year challenge
Screening legacy wells can be more important than 3D seismic when picking storage areas, Elaine Campbell said. “They provide valuable data but they’re also likely to be the highest risk to containment,” the Storegga official said.
Worley unit bags work on Teesside net zero cluster for BP
Worley’s consulting business Advisian has secured a contract from BP to advise on a pair of projects central to the decarbonisation cluster in the north east of England.
H2H project marks new beginning for Saltend
Industrial sites and chemicals plants are rarely portrayed as the new clean industries of the future, but many are now at the sharp end of the energy transition.
BP hires Shearwater for UK CCUS project
Shearwater Geoservices has landed a contract with BP for work for the East Coast CCUS cluster in the UK to scope out storage sites.
BP dishes out engineering contracts for major CCUS project
BP (LON: BP) has awarded engineering contracts for the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) and East Coast Cluster (ECC) carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) projects.
HyNet, East Coast forge forwards in race to capture carbon
Industrial clusters are critical to shifting to low carbon energy to continue operating in the UK.
BP hands out southern North Sea CCS contract
Oil and gas giant BP (LSE: BP) has handed out a contract for work on a key North Sea carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.