Eni submits application to develop UK North Sea CCS
Eni UK requested a carbon storage license application for development of a CCS project in the depleted Hewett gas field in the UK southern North Sea from the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA).
Eni UK requested a carbon storage license application for development of a CCS project in the depleted Hewett gas field in the UK southern North Sea from the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA).
The field, 19 miles off the Norfolk cost and currently in the decommissioned phase, has storage capacity of about 330 million tonnes and is ideal for decarbonizing the Bacton and Thames Estuary, Eni said. CCS operations at the site could be operational as early as 2027.
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
