Offshore staff
CROYDON, UK – Whitetail Clean Energy has appointed Atkins to support development and implementation of its proposed 300-MW NET Power station at Sembcorp Energy UK’s site at Wilton International in Teesside, northeast England.
The plant will capture and store its carbon emissions in geological formations deep under the UK North Sea. It could be operational in 2025.
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, will support Whitetail as the owner’s engineer through the design phases to financial closure, also providing an on-site presence to monitor, supervise and manage the construction and commissioning phase.
Whitetail will likely employ the NET Power technology, which combusts natural gas with oxygen, and uses supercritical CO2 as a working fluid to drive a turbine instead of steam.
As a result, most traditional pollutants and CO2 are said to be eliminated and pipeline-quality CO2 is produced, which can be captured and stored offshore.
Earlier this year 8 Rivers Capital completed a pre-FEED study for UK deployments of the NET Power technology, with funding from the UK government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.
09/10/2021
