North Sea carbon capture and storage facility vital to meet climate targets
A Humber net zero super cluster feeding into the North Sea’s ‘super basin’ is now eagerly anticipated after significant progress with cleaning up heavy industry was confirmed.
The backing of one of the two major transportation and storage routes for large-scale carbon capture and storage comes as academics identified the region’s offshore gas fields and other geological formations as having the greatest potential for holding the emissions, in what has been described as world-class research into the energy transition.
Just like with the emergence of offshore wind as described more than a decade ago by The Crown Estate, it appears the region is neighbouring the ideal real estate for the deployment of the latest decarbonisation methods, only this time way below the monopile foundations that now proliferate the near North Sea.
Highlighted back in March by those in Westminster, it could store 10 million tonnes of harmful emissions annually by 2030, with a further 50 per cent eyed by 2035. It embraces imports by sea via Immingham as well as the concentrated neighbouring power and refining cluster, where new plug-in ready industry is being planned at a rapid rate to sit alongside some retro-fitting on those well into their second half century of operations.