Baker Hughes supplying compressors, motors for Liverpool Bay CO2 injection
Saipem has contracted Baker Hughes to provide CO2 compression technology for Eni’s Liverpool Bay Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in north Wales/northwest England.
Baker Hughes will supply three advanced CO2 centrifugal compressor trains with electric motors and Lufkin Gears gearbox. The full compressor package will be used for re-injection of CO2 emitted locally by onshore industries into depleted natural gas reservoirs in Liverpool Bay.
Saipem is converting a gas compression and treatment complex at Point of Ayr in north Wales into a CO2 electrical compression station to ensure permanent storage of the CO2 storage offshore.
The Liverpool Bay CCS project is part of the HyNet Cluster development that will transport CO2 from capture plants throughout the region via new and repurposed pipeline infrastructure for permanent storage offshore.
Baker Hughes is participating in other CCS projects elsewhere, including supplying compression and power generation equipment for bp’s integrated Tangguh UCC project at its Tangguh LNG plant in Papua Barat, Indonesia.
There, the company will provide three gas turbine generators, three heat recovery steam generators and one steam turbine generator for a 175-MW combined power cycle plant. This will deliver power for enhanced gas recovery through carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).
In addition, Baker Hughes’ scope of work includes three electric motor-driven centrifugal compressors to boost feedstock gas produced from the offshore fields.
More recently, Baker Hughes entered a strategic partnership with Frontier Infrastructure to accelerate deployment of large-scale CCS and power solutions in the US.
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