The Australian energy company Synergia Energy is seeking a replacement project partner to take over the 50% stake held by Harbour Energy in their joint Medway Hub Camelot CCS project in the North Sea (United Kingdom), which would have a storage capacity of 70 to 100 MtCO2 and could store up to 6.5 MtCO2/year. Harbour Energy had acquired the original JV partner, Wintershall DEA, in September 2024 but is now requesting to withdraw from the carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.
The project would capture CO2 from three large CCGT power plants near Rochester (Kent), namely the 1.5 GW Grain CCGT, the 805 MW Damhead CCGT and the 755 MW Medway CCGT, and would inject it into depleted gas fields and saline aquifers for permanent sequestration on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). So far, the CCS project has completed a preliminary front end engineering design (pre-FEED) study and has been awarded a carbon storage license, with the target to start first CO2 injection in 2032. Synergia Energy will continue to progress with legacy well integrity studies, but will suspend all other non-essential technical work until a replacement JV partner is found.