Eni CCUS Holding has installed the new Douglas CCS platform at Liverpool Bay, offshore north Wales and northwest England. It will act as the offshore hub for the HyNet carbon transportation and storage network, receiving CO2 captured from industrial facilities and sending it through repurposed subsea pipelines into depleted gas reservoirs for permanent storage. The platform replaces the old Douglas Process structure and was built by Rosetti Marino in Italy. Eni says Douglas is the first purpose-built offshore platform dedicated solely to CCS. The wider Liverpool Bay CCS network is roughly 50% complete, with plans to store up to 109 million metric tonnes of CO2 in the Hamilton Main, Hamilton North, and Lennox reservoirs. The project matters because it shows how legacy oil and gas infrastructure can be converted for long-term carbon storage. The next milestones are completing the Point of Ayre terminal, finishing the new topsides on the wellhead platforms, and proving that injection and monitoring wells perform as designed.
