Shell starts FEED for 1 MtCO₂/year CCS project in Scotland (UK)

Shell UK has awarded Technip a contract to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) for the onshore elements of the Peterhead Gas Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) demonstration project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland (United Kingdom). The project is designed to capture, compress and transport by pipeline 1 Mt/year of CO₂ to the depleted offshore Goldeneye gas reservoir for long-term storage beneath the North Sea. It could then capture up to 10 MtCO₂ over its 10-year operation life. The FEED scope includes a grassroots carbon capture and compression plant and modifications to an existing combined cycle gas turbine power plant. An agreement was signed between Shell and the UK Government in late February 2014, allowing the project to move into this phase, which is expected to last through 2014 and 2015. The British government will invest £50m (€61m) to finance the FEED study for the Peterhead CCS project.