- BUSINESS MEETINGS AND AGREEMENTS
London, 17 October 2023 - Eni has reached an agreement in principle with the UK Government’s Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) on the key terms and conditions for the economic, regulatory and governance model for the transportation and storage of carbon dioxide at the HyNet North West industrial CCS cluster.
Set out in Heads of Terms, these principles pave the way for the completion of definitive agreements in the coming months. The agreement is an important step towards HyNet North West becoming fully operational as the world’s first asset based regulated CCS business, providing carbon transportation and storage for companies in the North West of England and North Wales.
Eni believes CCS could be crucial in energy transition strategy and it becomes a significant business for the company. It has established a leading position in the UK where Eni is the CO2 transport and storage operator of the HyNet North West consortium. Moreover the company is planning a second UK CCS hub to decarbonise the Bacton Energy Hub and the Thames Estuary region – and has been granted a license to store carbon dioxide in the depleted Hewett gas field in the Southern North Sea. Together, HyNet North West and Bacton have the capacity to store 500 million tonnes of CO2.
HyNet North West will transform one of the country’s most energy intensive industrial districts into one of the world’s first low-carbon industrial clusters. The project will help preserve thousands of local jobs by supporting the decarbonisation of cement, energy, chemicals as well as attracting investment into new industries thus creating new jobs.
HyNet North West is expected to be operational by the middle of the current decade with a storage capacity of approximately 4.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year in the first phase. It has the potential to remove approximately 10 million annually after 2030. HyNet North West will make a major contribution to the UK’s target of storing 20-30 million tonnes of CO2 annually by 2030.
Eni’s CEO, Claudio Descalzi, commented: “CCS will play a critical role in energy transition, cutting safely emissions from industries that currently don’t have the technology to do so another way. Today’s agreement is a significant step towards establishing a significant new industry for the country. The Heads of Terms outline a regulated model that can help the CCS industry achieve scale and provide the certainty needed for private sector investment. This kind of close cooperation with the public sector will be critical to developing the kind of groundbreaking projects we need to address the climate challenge”.
Eni has developed extensive expertise in storing gas in depleted fields over many decades. It intends to use this to repurpose some of its existing upstream assets into carbon dioxide storage hubs to decarbonise both its own and third parties' industrial activities at a competitive cost and with fast time to market. The aim is to achieve a total annual storage capacity of 30 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030 through projects under development not only in the United Kingdom but also in Italy, in Libya, Australia and Egypt.
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