The ground-breaking Acorn Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project has begun a feasibility study after being awarded European Union funding round Accelerating CCS Technologies (ACT).
The Acorn CCS project is a phased full-chain project in North East Scotland, which will transport and store carbon dioxide (CO2) captured initially from the St Fergus gas processing terminal. The CO2 will be transported offshore and injected deep underground for permanent storage in a saline formation. Later phases will store CO2, a greenhouse gas, from other sources.
The ACT Acorn study is being led by Pale Blue Dot Energy with project partners Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (University of Aberdeen, University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University), University of Liverpool, Bellona (Norway) and Radboud University (Netherlands).
The study will demonstrate the commercial and regulatory aspects of CCS project development in the UK. This would include the commercial aspects of transferring oil and gas infrastructure for use in CCS, the implementation of CO2 storage permits and development of funding and risk allocation aspects of CCS projects.
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