The agreement will enable the project to accelerate a pre-front end engineering design program, with an intention to begin a full FEED study in the second half of 2012.
The aim of the project is to design and develop a full chain, post-combustion CCS facility which is capable of capturing CO2 from one 385 MW combined cycle gas turbine unit at SSE’s Peterhead Power Station.
CO2 captured will then be transported to the Shell operated Goldeneye gas field in the North Sea using existing infrastructure.
SSE will lead on all aspects of the capture plant, including initial compression and dehydration and Shell will examine all other aspects, including onshore and offshore transportation and storage.
