BP, Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell and Total have formed the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), to develop offshore carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) transport and storage infrastructure in the UK North Sea.
BP, Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell and Total have formed the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), to develop offshore carbon dioxide (CO2) transport and storage infrastructure in the UK North Sea. This infrastructure will serve the proposed Net Zero Teesside (NZT) and Zero Carbon Humber (ZCH) projects that aim to establish decarbonized industrial clusters in Teesside and Humberside in the north of the UK.
NZT and ZCH decarbonization projects are aimed at kick-starting decarbonization of industry and power in two of the UK’s largest industrial clusters. Both projects will be commissioned by 2026 and it is hoped that they will achieve net zero as early as 2030 through a combination of carbon capture, hydrogen and fuel-switching. If successful, NEP linked to NZT and ZCH will allow decarbonization of nearly 50% of the UK’s industrial emissions.
NEP, operated by BP, has submitted a bid for funding from Phase 2 of the UK government’s Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge, aiming to accelerate the development of an offshore pipeline network to transport-captured CO2 emissions from both NZT and ZCH to offshore geological storage beneath the UK North Sea.
The £170 million Industrial Decarbonization Challenge is part of the £4.7bn Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund set up to address the biggest industrial and societal challenges using research and development based in the UK.
The application follows the approval by the UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) of the addition of BP and Equinor alongside National Grid to the Endurance carbon storage licence.
