Britain’s North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) and Crown Estate Scotland (CES) have signed a statement of intent (SoI) committing to jointly support development of the UK North Sea’s energy and carbon storage potential.
In the SoI, they pledge to progress net-zero targets by helping different technologies share space in the North Sea with a coordinated approach to managing the seabed and identifying opportunities for co-location of different projects.
Other priorities include coordinated leasing and licensing of carbon storage, allowing more effective development of carbon capture and storage projects in Scottish waters, as well as addressing the challenges facing marine industries.
They will seek to promote more effective data sharing and efficient delivery of data via services such as the Marine Data Exchange and National Data Repository, and identifying digital opportunities via, for instance, the Offshore Energy Digital Strategy Group.
Other goals are to promote opportunities for the reuse and repurposing of offshore oil and gas infrastructure, and to collaborate on electrification of offshore platforms for oil and gas and carbon storage operations, including via integration with offshore wind development.
