Global energy technology company SLB has been awarded a technologies and services contract for carbon storage site development in the North Sea by the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), an incorporated joint venture between BP, Equinor, and TotalEnergies.
NEP is developing onshore and offshore infrastructure needed to transport CO2 from carbon capture projects across Teesside and the Humber—collectively known as the East Coast Cluster—to secure storage under the North Sea.
SLB will deploy its Sequestri carbon storage portfolio—which includes technologies specifically engineered and qualified for the development of carbon storage sites—to construct six carbon storage wells. The project scope includes drilling, measurement, cementing, fluids, completions, wireline, and pumping services.
“Technologies and services tailored for carbon storage will play a critical role in shifting the economics and safeguarding the integrity of carbon storage projects before and after the FID [final investment decision],” said Katherine Rojas, senior vice president of industrial decarbonization at SLB.
The NEP, via the Endurance saline aquifer and adjacent stores, has access to up to 1 billion metric tons of CO2 storage capacity. The infrastructure will transport and permanently store up to an initial 4 million metric tons of CO2 per year with startup expected in 2028.
