Perenco authorized to progress North Sea Leman carbon capture project

Offshore staff

LONDON — The North Sea Transition Authority has awarded Perenco UK and Carbon Catalyst Ltd. a license to progress their Poseidon carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at the Leman gas fields in the UK southern North Sea.

Leman provides a combination of depleted gas reservoirs and saline aquifers for permanent storage of recovered CO₂.

The production complex is linked via pipeline to the PUK Bacton Terminal on the Norfolk coast, which will receive and process CO₂ from various onshore sources before directing these offshore for injection into reservoir rocks for permanent subsurface storage.

Perenco expects to bring the development online by 2029, with initial CO₂ injection rates of about 1.5 MM metric tons/year, rising to ~10MMt/year by 2030 and peaking at ~40MMt/year by 2040.

Work will now progress to further detailed appraisal of the storage sites and commence work.

The company’s new CCS Department in London is building a team of diverse competencies to assess and deliver this program and other potential carbon storage projects in the UK and elsewhere.

08.14.2023