HyNet North West awards detailed engineering for CCS pipeline
HyNet North West contractor United Living Infrastructure Services has awarded Penspen Ltd. detailed engineering work for the project’s CO2 transportation pipeline and above ground installations (AGI). The pipeline will consist of a combination of new assets and repurposed infrastructure, transporting captured carbon from local industrial emitters in Stanlow, UK, to the Liverpool Bay carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) site at Point of Ayr.
The new pipeline system will run from Ince in northwest England to the Point of Ayr terminal on the north coast of Wales via Essar Oil (UK) Ltd.’s 10-million tonne/year (tpy) Stanlow integrated refining complex. The route will include six block-valve stations and five AGI.
Essar Energy Transition last year said it would install Europe’s first 100% hydrogen-fueled power plant at the Stanlow refinery. Essar expects the 125-Mw power plant to be completed in 2027 (OGJ Online, July 15, 2024).
Government funding of HyNet North West began in October 2024 as a project to implement both CCS and low-carbon hydrogen infrastructure at large scale, including a hydrogen production plant, a hydrogen transport network, and hydrogen storage, with carbon emissions captured and stored in depleted hydrocarbon fields in the Irish Sea.
HyNet will have the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 10 million tpy in the 2030s, according to Penspen.
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