Petrochemical company SABIC will join the Teesside Collective, a planned industrial carbon capture and storage network in the United Kingdom’s most carbon-intensive area, the collective announced Friday. Industrial energy and water services provider Sembcorp Utilities UK, BOC, Lotte Chemical UK, and GrowHow, comprise the rest of the collective.
“We are excited to join Teesside Collective. It’s a leading green growth initiative in the UK aimed at attracting further investment to the region and reducing industrial carbon emissions. SABIC’s recent work on carbon re-use in Saudi Arabia has shown us first-hand the feasibility of Teesside Collective’s vision and the benefits that realising income streams can bring,” John Bruijnooge, site director of SABIC’s Teesside operations, said in a press release.
The Teesside Collective aims to outfit several high-emission industrial facilities in the UK’s Tees Valley with carbon capture and storage technology and connect them to a carbon pipeline for offshore storage under the North Sea. The Teesside project will including Lotte Chemical, BOC, CF Fertilizers, Sembcorp Utilities UK, and now SABIC. Other involved parties include National Grid, Tees Valley Unlimited, and the North East of England Process Industry Cluster. The Teesside Collective’s most recent estimates suggest the carbon capture projects could be operational by 2024.
