Carbon dioxide storage project off UK wins early nod

Nov. 27, 2018
A project that would store carbon dioxide in a deep saline aquifer off the UK has won an early nod from the Scottish government. Crown Estate Scotland awarded a lease option to Acorn CCS, a project of Pale Blue Dot Energy, Banchory, Scotland, that would capture CO2 emitted by industries near the St. Fergus Gas Terminal and transport it offshore through existing pipelines.

A project that would store carbon dioxide in a deep saline aquifer off the UK has won an early nod from the Scottish government.

Crown Estate Scotland awarded a lease option to Acorn CCS, a project of Pale Blue Dot Energy, Banchory, Scotland, that would capture CO2 emitted by industries near the St. Fergus Gas Terminal and transport it offshore through existing pipelines.

The CO2 would be injected into the Early Cretaceous Captain sandstone 2 km below the seabed about 100 km offshore in the Central North Sea.

Blue Dot Energy said the lease option is a precursor to a full storage lease that allows Acorn CCS to advance detailed studies.

Crown Estate Scotland said the lease option is the first it has granted for CO2 storage.