SSE PeterheadJoint venture: CO2DeepStore and Shell U.K. Ltd
CO2 source: SSE Peterhead
Location: Goldeneye reservoir area, Outer Moray Firth UK North Sea
Project scope: Offshore transport and storage of CO2
Funding: NER300 (EU) & DECC CCS Delivery Programme (UK)
Project status: Feasibility and pre-FEED onshore, FEED offshore
Project timetable: First injection 2016
Work is currently progressing on the design for the offshore aspects of the storage facilities. SSE has submitted a proposal under the EU’s NER300 funding process to develop a CCS project at its gas-fired power station in Peterhead, North East Scotland. The proposed project will design and develop a full chain, post-combustion CCS facility which will be capable of capturing the CO2 from one 385 MW combined cycle gas turbine unit. The project will apply for funding from both the EU’s NER300 and Department of Energy and Climate Change funding programmes which are aimed at stimulating and encouraging investment in CCS.
Ian Marchant, Chief Executive of SSE, said, “I believe Peterhead represents the best site in the UK for a gas CCS project and our co-operation with Shell and Petrofac strengthens this proposition even further”