Wood has been awarded a front end engineering and design (FEED) contract by Centrica Energy Storage (CES) for the redevelopment of the UK’s Rough field in readiness for future hydrogen storage.
The contract creates around 50 new roles. The Rough reservoir, located in the Southern North Sea – which has been used to store natural gas for over 30 years – could potentially provide over half of the UK’s hydrogen storage requirements.
The contract entails new pipelines, a new unmanned installation, as well as onshore injection facilities at the Easington Gas Terminal, is the first step in making the field hydrogen ready.
Steve Nicol, Executive President, Operations at Wood, said the redevelopment project is critical to both the UK’s long-term energy security and its industrial decarbonisation commitments.
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