Aramco’s ACCS project advances with preliminary engineering work complete
Saudi Aramco’s accelerated carbon capture and sequestration (ACCS) project in Saudi Arabia is advancing. Wood plc has completed front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for the first phase of Aramco’s project, expected to be the world’s largest CCS hub upon completion.
The hub is expected to capture up to 9 million tonnes/year of CO2 starting in 2027. The first phase intends to capture carbon emissions from Aramco gas plant infrastructure near Jubail, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia, as well as from third-party emitters.
Wood designed the greenfield dehydration and compression infrastructure as well as the pipeline network, including a 200+ km dense-phase CO2 pipeline.
Aramco expects to store up to 14 million tpy of CO2 equivalent by 2035.
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
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).
