EnergyPathways has appointed well engineering and project management provider Zenith Energy as a contractor for the multipurpose MESH development in the UK East Irish Sea.
Zenith will support EnergyPathways Irish Sea Ltd. (EPISL) as designated well operator for the MESH gas storage project. Its responsibilities will include drilling and completion design, permit planning and submission, tendering and procurement of long-lead items, preparation of the rig tender, managing the rig’s arrival on site, well examination support, and execution of the offshore Marram gas field development wells.
Zenith had already been collaborating with EnergyPathways on the project’s pre-FEED phase.
Aside from the MESH gas storage project wells, the company can also support the planned well operations for the development’s Long Duration Energy Storage and Hydrogen Storage phases.
The development’s estimated subsurface geo-storage capacity is about 50 Bcf, equivalent to Centrica’s Rough gas storage facility in the UK southern North Sea.
The MESH facility will be powered by electricity produced from nearby wind farms in the Irish Sea region to avoid emissions from venting and flaring.
Over the longer term, the project is designed to at some point also use excess wind power to produce and store green hydrogen.
Marram is 11 miles from the Lancashire coast, northwest England, close to near to late-life reusable gas pipelines and infrastructure (according to EnergyPathways) and surrounded by 7 to 8 GW of existing and planned offshore wind power developments.
It is also close to the HyNet offshore/onshore carbon capture and storage development.
