The Peterhead Gas Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) onshore facility in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. (Credit: Shell UK)Technip has been awarded a contract by Shell UK Limited to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) for the onshore elements of the Peterhead Gas Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) demonstration project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The project is designed to capture, compress and transport by pipeline one million tonnes a year of carbon dioxide (CO2) to an offshore gas reservoir for long-term storage beneath the North Sea.
In March 2013, the Peterhead CCS Project was chosen as one of two CCS demonstration projects to progress to the next stage of the Government’s CCS Commercialization Competition funding. The project is now moving into the next phase of design, a phase known as Front-End Engineering Design, or FEED. An agreement was signed between Shell and the UK Government on February 24, 2014, allowing the project to move into this phase, which is expected to last through 2014 and 2015.
The FEED scope includes a grassroots carbon capture and compression plant and modifications to an existing combined cycle gas turbine power plant.
Shell intends to build a short new pipeline from Peterhead power station and link this into an existing offshore pipeline from St Fergus to the Goldeneye reservoir. (Credit: Shell UK)
Technip’s operating center in Milton Keynes, UK, which executed a pre-FEED study for the Peterhead CCS project about 18 months ago, will execute the FEED for this next phase. This office serves as a center for the development of end-to-end solutions for carbon capture and sequestration projects.
Technip has a strong record of deploying clean technologies and particularly first-of-a-kind technologies. Examples include the world’s first floating offshore wind unit and the world’s largest biofuels unit.
Stan Knez, Technip’s Senior Vice President, Process Technology, commented: “Technip is committed to the development of innovative, sustainable solutions for our customers and we look forward to expanding our footprint into the carbon capture and sequestration value chain.”
Technip has widened its range of services and has reinforced its leadership in the downstream business since the acquisition of Stone & Webster process technologies in 2012.
