Wintershall Dea confirms award of North Sea carbon capture license

Aug. 16, 2023

Britain’s NSTA has awarded Synergia Energy and Wintershall Dea the Camelot CCS license in the southern North Sea.

Offshore staff

KASSEL, Germany — Britain’s North Sea Transition Authority has awarded Synergia Energy and Wintershall Dea the Camelot carbon capture and storage (CCS) license in the southern North Sea.

The proposed annual subsurface storage potential is up to 6 MM metric tons of CO₂ in an area that includes depleted gas fields and an overlying saline aquifer.

The two companies each have a 50% interest in the development. While Synergia Energy will be project operator in the appraisal phase, Wintershall Dea Carbon Management Solutions UK, formed last August, will develop and manage the work program.

In late June, the NSTA offered the Synergia Energy/Wintershall Dea partnership a carbon storage license, the 21st offer issued under the UK’s first carbon storage licensing round, which closed last September.

Camelot covers the proposed Medway Hub Carbon Capture and Storage project in southeast England, which would capture and transport CO₂ emissions in liquid CO₂ form from the exhaust streams of three coastal combined cycle gas turbine power stations on the Isle of Grain offshore the north Kent coast, using a marine tanker and a floating injection, storage and offloading vessel.

Upon arrival at the vessel, the CO₂ would be injected into depleted gas fields and saline aquifers in the UK North Sea for permanent sequestration.

08.16.2023