Wood Group wins Shell CCS FEED

The project, the world’s first full-chain CCS project on a gas-fired power station, would have the ability to transport any captured carbon dioxide (CO2) 100km offshore, for storage 2km under the North Sea in the Goldeneye gas field.

Wood Group Kenny has been awarded a six-month contract that will include the following: developing a landfall solution at the Peterhead Power Station; design of a new CO2 export pipeline from Peterhead Power Station to a subsea tie-in with the existing Goldeneye pipeline; and a new subsea intervention valve (SSIV), including controls system and tie-in spools.

More than 20 FEED subcontracts have been awarded supporting both Peterhead and White Rose

Energy minister Matthew Hancock

Peterhead CCS is being developed by Shell with strategic support from Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).

While it may become the world’s first gas CCS plant, the overall title of world’s first CCS plant goes to the Boundary Dam coal-fired plant in Canada, which opened at the start of this month.

Peterhead is one of two projects being developed in the UK under the government’s CCS Commercialisation competition; the other being the 426MW White Rose CCS facility at Drax.

Business, Enterprise & Energy minister Matthew Hancock claimed that the UK was “leading the way in Europe” when in came to developing CCS.

“So far more than 20 FEED subcontracts have been awarded supporting both the Peterhead and White Rose CCS Commercialisation Programme projects,” said Hancock. 

“Combined, these projects if successful could support jobs during construction and generate enough clean electricity for up to one million homes upon completion.”

Today’s awarding of the subsea and pipeline FEED study for Peterhead follows National Grid awarding a FEED contract for pipeline work on the White Rose project in August.