The Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), a joint venture between BP (45%), Equinor (45%), and TotalEnergies (10%), has awarded the US energy technology company SLB a contract to provide carbon storage solutions for the first offshore CCS project in the United Kingdom.
The NEP project includes an onshore CO₂ gathering network, compression facilities, and a 145-kilometer offshore pipeline that will transport CO₂ to the Endurance saline aquifer, located approximately 1,000 meters beneath the seabed. It will initially serve the Teesside-based East Coast Cluster (ECC) carbon capture projects, which were selected in March 2023 under the UK government’s CCUS cluster sequencing programme.
SLB will deploy its carbon storage solutions portfolio to drill and complete six carbon injection wells. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2025, with initial CO₂ injection potentially starting in 2027 and full operations expected by 2028. The project has a permitted injection capacity of 4 MtCO₂/year, averaged over 25 years—enabling a total storage volume of up to 100 Mt.