BOC is about to open a new carbon dioxide capture and liquefaction plant in Teesside, built next to its existing North Tees hydrogen production site. The plant retrofits carbon capture onto a steam methane reformer and is designed to capture over 200,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. That CO2 will be compressed and sent through the Northern Endurance Partnership pipeline network, part of the UK's East Coast Cluster. This adds a fifth Teesside site for BOC, a Linde company, and gives UK customers a domestic CO2 supply source at a time when imports and other supply routes have been under pressure. The UK government has also put £100m into the Ensus biorefinery restart in the same area to protect domestic CO2 supplies. The project shows how hydrogen production and carbon capture can tie together in one industrial cluster, though the actual captured tonnage and operational timeline will matter more than the announcement.
