General – Decarbonisation Mission
Three players – Amplus Energy, EnQuest’s Veri Energy, and Ocean-Power – have embarked on a decarbonization mission to bring offshore electrification operations to new heights in the UK and Norway by throwing carbon capture solutions into the mix to curb oil and gas installations’ carbon footprint.
The electricity generated will be distributed from the UK Northern North Sea generation hub to several nearby oil and gas installations in the UK and Norway, providing a reliable, cost-competitive, low-carbon power source and avoiding the complexity and challenges of connecting to grid infrastructure.
The captured CO2, anticipated to be up to 1 million tonnes per annum, will be transported a short distance to Veri Energy’s planned carbon storage hub for permanent storage.
Veri Energy holds four carbon storage licenses and seeks to repurpose existing infrastructure around the Sullom Voe Terminal, including the 200km East of Shetland pipeline to develop CO2 reception and storage facilities capable of receiving and securely storing up to 10 million tonnes of CO2 annually from isolated emitters in the UK, Europe and beyond.
