Eni and UK Government agree on terms for CCS business model
Published by Poppy Clements,
Assistant Editor
Hydrocarbon Engineering,
Set out in Heads of Terms, these principles pave the way for the completion of definitive agreements in the coming months. The agreement is an important step towards HyNet North West becoming fully operational as the world’s first asset based regulated CCS business, providing carbon transportation and storage for companies in the North West of England and North Wales.
Eni believes CCS could be crucial in energy transition strategy. The company is the CO2 transport and storage operator of the HyNet North West consortium, an innovative low carbon and hydrogen energy project. Moreover the company is planning a second UK CCS hub to decarbonise the Bacton Energy Hub and the Thames Estuary region – and has been granted a licence to store CO2 in the depleted Hewett gas field in the Southern North Sea. Together, HyNet North West and Bacton have the capacity to store 500 million t of CO2.
HyNet North West will transform one of the country’s most energy intensive industrial districts into one of the world’s first low-carbon industrial clusters. The project will help preserve thousands of local jobs by supporting the decarbonisation of cement, energy and chemicals, as well as attracting investment into new industries.
HyNet North West is expected to be operational by the middle of the current decade with a storage capacity of approximately 4.5 million tpy of CO2 in the first phase. It has the potential to remove approximately 10 million tpy after 2030. HyNet North West will make a major contribution to the UK’s target of storing 20-30 million tpy of CO2 by 2030.
Eni’s CEO, Claudio Descalzi, commented: “CCS will play a critical role in energy transition, cutting emissions from industries that currently don’t have the technology to do so another way. Today’s agreement is a significant step towards establishing a significant new industry for the country. The Heads of Terms outline a regulated model that can help the CCS industry achieve scale and provide the certainty needed for private sector investment. This kind of close cooperation with the public sector will be critical to developing the kind of groundbreaking projects we need to address the climate challenge”.
Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/the-environment/18102023/eni-and-uk-government-agree-on-terms-for-ccs-business-model/
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