Offshore staff
BARROW-IN-FURNESS, UK — The Morecambe Net Zero (MNZ) Cluster has entered a memorandum of understanding to explore storage opportunities for CO2 captured by the Peak Cluster facility in the East Irish Sea offshore Barrow-in-Furness, northwest England.
Peak Cluster, located in the English counties of Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire, comprises four cement and lime producers—Tarmac, Breedon, Lhoist and Aggregate Industries—and the Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant in Cheshire, all working with Progressive Energy, a low-carbon energy project developer.
Offshore gas field operator Spirit Energy, which is leading a consortium to deliver the MNZ Cluster, plans to convert the depleted North and South Morecambe gas fields into a carbon storage facility that could be one of Europe’s largest.
The fields could potentially store up to one gigatonne (1 blilion metric tons) of CO2.
The plants within Peak Cluster account for 40% of the UK’s cement and lime production and collectively emit more than 3 MM metric tons/year of CO2.
Connecting Peak Cluster to the MNZ Cluster via a pipeline could help these industries continue operating within the UK and could lead to the creation of thousands of new related jobs in northwest England.
In May of this year, Britain’s North Sea Transition Authority granted Spirit Energy a carbon storage license related to the proposed repurposing of the North and South Morecambe gas fields in the East Irish Sea for carbon capture and storage.
09.28.2023
