Abby L. Harvey
GHG Monitor
1/23/2015
An effort to incorporate carbon capture and storage technology in a set of industrial facilities in the area of Teesside in the United Kingdom officially got underway this week with an event at the British Parliament’s House of Commons. The project, which has been branded the Teesside Collective, aims to outfit several high emission industrial facilities with carbon capture and storage technology and connect them to a carbon pipeline for offshore storage under the North Sea. Four “anchor projects” have been identified at BOC, Lotte Chemical UK, SSI UK and GrowHow. Other involved parties include National Grid, Tees Valley Unlimited and the North East Process Industry Cluster. “CCS on industrial plant is going to be a critical part of the global effort to prevent serious climate change. Teesside is in the right place, at the right time, to get ahead of the curve, insulating itself from future carbon costs and putting the UK on the map as the go to place for clean industrial investment,” David King, Special Representative for Climate Change, said in a Teesside Collective release.
Amec Foster Wheeler has been working on engineering design and cost estimating for this project while Societe Générale is providing financial advice. Pale Blue Dot is providing CCS project development advice and building a business case for the project. “Work is ongoing, but initial findings indicate the project is feasible. Retrofitting carbon capture technology to the four anchor projects’ different industrial processes – steel, ammonia, hydrogen and polyethylene terephthalate production – is operationally and technically feasible. Teesside is also assessed as being well located for the transportation of the carbon to permanent storage facilities under the Central or Southern North Sea,” according to the release.
