Shell UK and engineering firm Petrofac subsidiary CO2 DeepStore will provide the offshore transport and storage elements of the SSE project, under which a full chain, post-combustion CCS facility will be developed.
The facility will capture CO2 from one 385MW combined-cycle gas turbine unit at the power plant.
As per the current plans, the CO2 will then be transported to St Fergus for further compression and then transported via an undersea pipeline to an existing gas reservoir in the North Sea operated by Shell UK that will have ceased production.
The project is sized to be able to participate in both the EU’s NER300 and the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) funding programs that are aimed at stimulating and encouraging investment in CCS.
