bp to develop Teeside CCS projects

bp has taken positive financial investment decision (FID) to progress to execution phase on the UK’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) and Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power).

Both projects are in Teeside, England. NEP is the CO₂ transportation and storage provider for the East Coast Cluster (ECC), one of the UK Government’s first selected CCS clusters. Construction on the project is expected to begin in mid-2025 with start-up in 2028. The project includes a CO₂ gathering network and onshore compression infrastructure as well as a 145-km offshore pipeline and subsea injection and monitoring for the Endurance saline aquifer about 1,000 m below the seabed. 

ECC could transport and store up to 4 million tonnes/year (tpy) of captured CO₂ emissions from three Teesside projects initially, rising to an average of up to 23 million tpy by 2035 with future expansion of the East Coast Cluster, bp said.

NZT Power will be a new first-of-a-kind gas-fired power plant with carbon capture. The plant will have the capacity to generate up to 742 Mw of decarbonized, flexible power, equivalent to the average electricity demand of around 1 million UK homes, bp said. NZT Power will have a capacity to capture up to 2 million tpy of CO₂ for transport and secure storage by the NEP project.

NEP has also been granted government approval to progress development engineering for the Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline (HCCP), the proposed onshore infrastructure project that would transport CO₂ from future selected carbon capture projects in the Humber region.

bp is operator at both projects with a 45% stake in NEP with partners Equinor (45%) and TotalEnergies (10%) and a 75% stake in the NZT Power project with Equinor holding the remaining 25%.