Acorn, a CCS-focused joint venture between Storegga, Shell UK Limited, Harbour Energy, and North Sea Midstream Partners, has signed a carbon dioxide (CO2) storage and transportation deal with international energy company Uniper.
Under terms of a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Acorn will store CO2 captured at Uniper’s Grain power station, a 1,326MW combined cycle gas turbine plant located in the southeast of England on the Isle of Grain.
The partners will jointly develop a potential solution to ship captured CO2 from the Isle of Grain to Peterhead Port in the northeast of Scotland and onto the Acorn transportation and storage (T&S) network.
Once at the Acorn transportation and storage network, the CO2 will then be piped and stored 2.5 km below the seabed in the North Sea using repurposed gas pipelines.
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