Regardless of the U.K.’s decision to scrap its £1 billion carbon capture and storage commercialization competition, the government retained the right to access and share data and knowledge gained from the early stages of the projects that remained in the competition when it closed last year. That information, in the form of five reports covering various topics, was released Tuesday by the nation’s Department of Energy and Climate Change. “The reports will enable both the Peterhead and White Rose projects to share the knowledge and learning acquired on their respective CCS projects,” a DECC publication announcement says.
The U.K. axed the completion in November, saying it was not economically feasible to pursue at the time. However, DECC had already signed front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the two remaining projects: Capture Power’s White Rose and Shell’s Peterhead. The FEED studies were completed in December 2015 and reflect project progress through the cancellation of the competition.
“At the time of the announcement Shell was in the process of finalising proposals for the Execute project phase for consideration in an internal Final Investment Decision (FID) gateway review. As a result the Execute project phase proposals had not yet been full formalised and approved. However, due to the status of the developed proposals at the time of the announcement, the information presented is considered to provide a good representation of the expected outcome of the FID review,” one of the Peterhead reports says.
The results of those FEED studies were broken into five topic areas: subsurface and well engineering; power and capture; full chain; transport; and commercial, project management, and lessons learned. Tuesday’s reports correspond to these topic areas. Each report is then broken down into more specific sections, encompassing a massive amount of data.
All of the reports can be located in the DECC’s carbon capture and storage knowledge sharing collection.
