Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a contract by Spirit Energy for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the UK.
It relates to Spirit Energy’s license award by the UK’s North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) to repurpose the North and South Morecambe gas fields for carbon capture and storage.
The so-called Morecambe net zero cluster is planned to become one of the UK’s biggest carbon storage hubs. It should be able to store up to a gigaton of carbon dioxide – the equivalent of three years worth of current UK CO₂ emissions. It could initially store above 5mtpa of CO₂, scaling in time to 25mtpa.
Spirit Energy said it has ambitions for the two gas fields to form the core of a green super-hub. This would explore opportunities like direct air capture, the manufacture of blue hydrogen, the production of green hydrogen, the integration of other renewable power generation facilities, and energy storage.
Shearwater’s six-week operation is scheduled for the summer of 2024 and will be the company’s fifth CCS survey in the last two years.
“By applying our innovative data collection and imaging technology to help operators gain a better understanding of their storage sites we support deployment of CCS at scale. CCS has been identified as a key mitigation measure for climate change but deployment at scale remains the challenge. We are leveraging our expertise and our marine seismic technology to meet this challenge in order to build a more sustainable future,” SAID Tanya Herwanger, senior vice president of strategy and new markets at Shearwater.
