Acorn Project Partners select Carbon Clean to deliver Acorn carbon capture plant FEED study
Thursday 15 July 2021
Carbon Clean selected to provide the carbon capture technology to the Acorn Project’s FEED study
The Acorn Project is one of the most mature carbon capture and storage projects in the UK; it provides critical infrastructure to enable British and European industries to decarbonise
Carbon Clean and Pale Blue Dot have both received UK Government innovation funding; the project could remove at least half the CO2 emissions set out in the UK Government’s Ten Point Plan.
The partners in the Acorn Project, Storegga, through its wholly owned subsidiary Pale Blue Dot Energy, Shell, and Harbour Energy (“Harbour”), announce that Carbon Clean has been awarded the contract to carry out the Front End Engineering Design (“FEED”) services for the Acorn carbon capture plant at St Fergus. An important development in a project that could remove at least half the CO2 emissions set out in the UK Government’s Ten Point Plan for a green Industrial Revolution by 2030.
Carbon Clean is a leader in cost-effective carbon dioxide capture and separation technology. The Acorn Project is one of the most mature carbon capture and storage (“CCS”) and hydrogen projects in the UK and provides critically important infrastructure that will enable industries and homes across Scotland, the UK and Europe to decarbonise.
Acorn CCS is currently in the detailed engineering and design phase of the project. The carbon dioxide (“CO2”) capture facility is aiming to be operational at the St Fergus gas terminal complex by the mid-2020s. The captured CO2, together with CO2 volumes from other emitters, will be transported and permanently stored offshore, with annual storage volumes anticipated to grow to 5-10Mt/yr of CO2 by 2030. If this potential is realised, that would be at least half the CO2 emissions set out in the UK Government’s Ten Point Plan for a green Industrial Revolution by 2030. The project is due to be one of the first industrial-scale carbon capture projects in the UK.
The St Fergus gas terminal, located approximately 65km north of Aberdeen, is integral to meeting UK gas requirements on a daily basis and helps maximise the value of the North Sea’s natural storage potential.
By reusing existing gas pipelines, Acorn will transport the captured CO2 from the gas terminal stacks, into well-understood CO2 storage sites. This establishes a full chain carbon capture and storage process and a large CO2 transport and storage solution that will then be scaled to meet further demand. The CCS network created through the Acorn Project has the potential to be one of the largest operating CCS projects in the world, transporting and storing captured CO2 from emitters across Scotland, the UK and Europe.
Carbon Clean will work in collaboration with Wood, a global leader in consulting and engineering across energy and the built environment, headquartered in Aberdeen, on engineering, process design and construction planning for the carbon capture process unit.