Centrica, Wood evaluating converting Easington gas terminal to low-carbon hub
Centrica Storage Ltd. is working with John Wood Group PLC to evaluate the feasibility of transforming Centrica’s Easington gas processing terminal to a low-carbon production hub. Centrica Storage last year partnered with Equinor ASA to explore developing such a hub in the region as part of the UK’s Zero Carbon Humber initiative.
Based in East Yorkshire, the hub would be integrated with Centrica’s Rough field redevelopment, as well as the Easington Terminal’s hydrogen fuel switching project, both of which Wood is executing parallel studies for.
Centrica said that development of the Easington low-carbon hub over the next 10 years supports the company’s goal to achieve net zero by 2045. "We are excited to continue our collaboration with Wood as we explore opportunities to fulfil our pledge of facilitating the UK's transition to net zero,” added Martin Scargill, Centrica Storage managing director, “with our goal [being] to establish 1 Gw+ of green and blue low-carbon hydrogen [production] at Easington.”
Centrica Storages’s parent company, Centrica PLC, last month was granted a carbon storage license by the North Sea Transition Authority, advancing its plans to repurpose North and South Morecambe natural gas as a UK carbon capture and storage hub. The license was granted to Spirit Energy Ltd., Centrica’s (69%) partnership with Stadtwerke München GMBH SWM (31%). The planned hub could initially store more than 5 million tonnes/year (tpy) of CO2, with potential to store as much as 25 million tpy.
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