Energy Transition

North Sea Viking fields could host CO2 shipped from London

Dec. 5, 2023

Viking CCS has entered a commercial arrangement with waste management provider Cory Group.

Harbour Energy, bp and Associated British Ports have formed an exclusive commercial agreement with Cory Group for CO2 transportation and storage by ship.

Offshore staff

LONDON — Viking CCS, the Harbour Energy-led CO₂ transportation and storage development in eastern England, has entered a commercial arrangement with waste management provider Cory Group.

This involves transportation and storage of shipped CO₂ emissions from Cory’s energy from waste facilities. Cory operates one plant in Bexley, southeast London, which last year removed about 790,000 metric tons of residual waste from landfill.

It is now developing a second facility, Riverside 2, on the same site, and is looking to install carbon capture technology at both facilities to allow them to capture close to 1.3 MM metric tons/year of CO₂ by 2030.

Cory will work exclusively with the Viking CCS partners, which include bp and Associated British Ports (ABP) to investigate delivery of the captured CO₂ into the Viking CO₂ transportation and storage network via shipment to ABP’s Port of Immingham in northeast England.

From there, the CO₂ would be sent for storage in the depleted Viking gas fields in the southern North Sea.

Cory transports most of the waste it processes via a fleet of tugs and barges on the River Thames.

12.05.2023