Drax CCS wells FEED awarded
19 Dec 2014
National Grid has awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the wells required on Drax’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project.
National Grid’s CCS arm, National Grid Carbon, has awarded the FEED contract to Applied Drilling Technology International (ADTI) for the design of a shallow water well envelope and special features to make the wells suitable for CO2 storage.
ADTI will also investigate material selection, programming and cost estimation.
“ADTI’s design work will be an essential element of the project and we are looking forward to working together,” said National Grid Carbon project director Calum Hughes
“This latest contract now means all the main engineering and design work is underway and on schedule.”??
Award of the wells FEED follows the awarding of pipeline design work in August.
National Grid Carbon is working with Capture Power, a consortium of Alstom, Drax and BOC on the White Rose project to capture carbon dioxide emissions and store them permanently in the North Sea.
White Rose is planned for construction on land adjacent to the existing Drax site in North Yorkshire. It will be a 426MW coal-fired plant with the added ability to co-fire sustainable biomass, and 90% of all the CO2 produced by the plant will be captured and transported by pipeline.
The onshore and offshore pipeline infrastructure will have the capacity to transport up to 17 million tonnes of CO2 a year with the White Rose project requiring about 2 million tonnes.
The CO2 would then be pumped in liquid form under high pressure into natural rock formations over a kilometre beneath the North Sea seabed for permanent storage.
