A huge carbon capture transportation network for the Humber has been renamed to focus in on exactly what it is about.
V Net Zero the £500 million project led by Harbour Energy, will now be known as Viking CCS, taking the name from the area of the North Sea in which depleted gas fields could be repurposed. The high capacity storage and transportation proposal is in the final consultation stages, and aims to hold emissions created by industry in the South Humber Bank refinery-led cluster, as well as CO2 shipped in from other areas at neighbouring Port of Immingham.
A total of 10 million tonnes is being eyed by 2030, with a development consent order being submitted for the laying of a new 55km pipeline between the Humber Bank industry and former Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal - once a key piece of infrastructure providing the North Sea fuel to fire up the cluster. It will be redeveloped under the plan, with the existing 120km LOGGS offshore pipeline repurposed to transport the CO2 to the reservoirs.
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Viking holds one of the first storage licences granted for the long-mulled environmental solution for heavy industry, where electrification is not feasible. It aims to sequester emissions produced by Humber Zero lead partners Phillips 66 and VPI Immingham, with potential for other existing and investing process operations to join.
A spokesperson said: "V Net Zero, the carbon capture, transport and storage network led by Harbour Energy, has been renamed Viking CCS to better reflect the strength of its CO2 capture and storage capabilities.
"Viking CCS will develop infrastructure in the Humber region, the UK’s most industrialised region, to transport and store CO2 in secure offshore storage sites. The network is targeting a reduction of 10 million tonnes of UK greenhouse gas emissions per annum by 2030, with first capture planned for as early as 2027.
"Working with a wide range of emissions capture and infrastructure partners, the project will help to establish a world leading CO2 capture and storage industry in the UK and meet the Government’s net zero emissions targets. The project will also play a key role in solving the issue of stranded emissions from UK businesses and industrial clusters by developing an extended pipeline-based network which will link key emitters to Viking CCS’s transport and storage network."
The project website has also been relaunched.
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