In October 2021, the UK government selected the Northern Endurance Partnership’s East Coast Cluster as one of the first two clusters be taken forward as part of its Carbon Capture and Storage cluster sequencing process.
“The awards represent an important next step towards the proposed development of the UK’s first full-scale integrated power and carbon capture project.
Following the completion of the FEED process, the two consortiums will then submit Engineering, Procurement and Construction proposals for the execution phase.
Louise Kingham, BP’s UK head of country and senior vice president of Europe said: “Moving to Front End Engineering Design is a major step forward for Net Zero Teesside Power and the development of the Northern Endurance Partnership.
NZT Power, a joint venture between bp and Equinor, is a gas fired-power station fully integrated with carbon capture.
The contracts also include FEED for NEP’s Teesside facilities that will gather and compress CO2 from NZT Power and other regional sources and export it offshore for permanent sub-surface storage in the Endurance carbon store.
“Taking emissions from both the Teesside and Humber regions, the East Coast Cluster has the potential to transport and securely store nearly 50% of all UK industrial cluster CO2 emissions – up to 27 million tonnes of CO2 emissions a year by 2035.
NZT Power expects to submit a bid in January 2022 for selection as part of phase-2 of the UK Government’s Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage cluster sequencing process.