The Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), a joint venture of bp, Equinor ASA, and TotalEnergies, has contracted TechnipFMC to aid in the partnership’s work to build carbon dioxide transportation and storage infrastructure for carbon capture projects in the UK’s East Coast Cluster (OGJ Online, Oct. 27, 2020).
In October 2021, the NEP's East Coast Cluster, which includes Net Zero Teesside, was selected as a priority cluster in phase-1 of the UK Government’s carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) cluster sequencing process.
NEP offers access to the Endurance carbon store in the southern North Sea. Endurance is a saline aquifer which lies about 145 km offshore from Teesside in the North Sea. It has the capacity to store about 450 million tonnes of CO2, the partnership has said.
TechnipFMC will use its integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation execution model to deliver the project, the company said in a release Mar. 15. The company’s all-electric solution will collect and feed the pressurized gas into an aquifer for permanent storage.
The contract covers the supply and installation of an all-electric subsea system, including manifolds, umbilicals, and pipe.
An all-electric system aids in field design simplification, enabling a reduction of infrastructure and installation time through the removal of hydraulic components and simplified umbilicals, the service provider said. The technology also enables the development of projects over long distances.
The full contract award is subject to the receipt of regulatory clearances and final investment decision of the NEP project, expected in late 2024.
