{"id":72696,"date":"2020-03-03T07:38:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T07:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=72696"},"modified":"2021-03-15T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:24:49","slug":"carbon-capture-and-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/carbon-capture-and-storage\/72696\/","title":{"rendered":"Costain wins UK\u2019s first carbon capture and storage project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.costain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Costain<\/a> has been selected by <a href=\"https:\/\/pale-blu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pale Blue Dot Energy<\/a> deliver what could be the UK\u2019s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project<\/h2>\n<p>Costain has been awarded the next phase of work providing technical consultancy services on the carbon capture and storage project.<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to help the energy and transport industries meet the Scottish and UK Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/ukgb-net-zero-carbon\/56393\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">net-zero carbon<\/a> emissions targets.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the carbon capture and storage project?<\/h3>\n<p>The Acorn carbon capture and storage project is a low-cost, scalable CCS scheme that will not only enable the cost-efficient capture and storage of current carbon emissions from the onshore gas facilities at the St Fergus terminal in Scotland but is also a key enabler for the Acorn Hydrogen project. The Acorn Hydrogen project will see North Sea natural gas be reformed into clean hydrogen for blending into the gas grid to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/2020-construction-trends\/69505\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decarbonise heating<\/a> in homes and industries throughout the UK and use for other applications such as decarbonised transport.<\/p>\n<p>The system is also designed to be an enabler of other capture and storage projects including provision of CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0shipping facilities in Peterhead Port and repurposing the existing Feeder 10 pipeline to enable capture of CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0from Central Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The current phase of the project is led by Pale Blue Dot Energy Ltd, supported by study partners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shell.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shell<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.total.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Total<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrysaor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrysaor<\/a> and part-funded through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BEIS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/inea\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INEA<\/a> as a European Project of Common Interest.<\/p>\n<p>Acorn is designed to be built quickly, taking advantage of existing oil and gas infrastructure and a well understood offshore CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0storage site which has the first UK CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0appraisal and storage licence to be awarded by the Oil and Gas Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The reuse of existing high capacity on and offshore pipelines will save up to \u00a3750m on the overall Acorn project. The St Fergus gas terminal receives around 35% of all UK natural gas and provides direct access to the UK gas grid.<\/p>\n<h3>Design phase<\/h3>\n<p>Costain is providing concept design and front-end engineering design support, including onshore gas flue gas collection, CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0capture integration, CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0compression and conditioning located at St Fergus and offshore subsea systems design.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Phillips, energy sector director, Costain, said:\u00a0\u201cHydrogen and CCS play a fundamental role in decarbonising gas for domestic and industrial heating, powering industry and large-scale transport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarge-scale and relatively cost-effective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/costain-low-carbon-solution\/72359\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carbon capture<\/a> at the source of production is key to unlocking this potential and is one of the many low carbon solutions Costain is progressing as part of leading the decarbonisation of the UK footprint and driving clean growth across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis contract builds on work Costain has previously delivered on the scheme and extends our relationship with Pale Blue Dot Energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Acorn CCS project and other hydrogen initiatives we are involved with such as the North West Hydrogen Alliance and pioneering the deblending of hydrogen, will help enable CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0capture and hydrogen production in the immediate term and pave the way for a hydrogen economy, bringing the UK much closer to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/smart-energy-grid-greenscies\/71979\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sustainable energy<\/a> future.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>UK and Scotland net-zero<\/h3>\n<p>Russ Gilbert,\u00a0project director, <a href=\"https:\/\/pale-blu.com\/acorn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Acorn CCS<\/a>,\u00a0added:\u00a0\u201cAcorn is a critical project for realising the UK and Scotland\u2019s net-zero commitments. We are working extremely hard alongside our study partners: Chrysaor, Shell and Total, to deliver the different phases of this project to a timeline that is fully aligned with the Government\u2019s emission reduction targets and should achieve first injection of CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0into the Acorn store by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to achieve this, we need to work with high-performing organisations that understand the importance of this work. Costain is one such organisation which has played a key role in helping us get the project to this stage due to their deep understanding of the existing oil and gas infrastructure, its re-use for CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0service, associated technical processes and their experience in managing and delivering complex work programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costain has been selected by Pale Blue Dot Energy deliver what could be the UK\u2019s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[693,81582,430,673,636,279,714,831,639],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-energy-news","7":"tag-climate-change","8":"tag-costain","9":"tag-energy-efficiency","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-engineering","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-heating","14":"tag-hvac","15":"tag-procurement"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Costain wins UK\u2019s first carbon capture and storage project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Costain has been selected by Pale Blue Dot Energy deliver what could be the UK\u2019s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/carbon-capture-and-storage\/72696\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Costain wins UK\u2019s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Costain has been selected by Pale Blue Dot Energy deliver what could be the UK\u2019s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/carbon-capture-and-storage\/72696\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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