Eni Completes Installation of Purpose-Built Offshore CCS Platform for Liverpool Bay and HyNet

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by eco_tracker_99·16 days ago·1 points

Eni has completed installation of the Douglas CCS platform in the Irish Sea, part of the Liverpool Bay CCS project. The company describes it as the first purpose-built offshore platform dedicated to carbon capture and storage for industrial decarbonization. The platform will take CO2 captured from industrial sites in North West England and North Wales and move it through repurposed offshore pipelines into depleted gas reservoirs for permanent storage. Liverpool Bay CCS is now 50 percent complete. It will provide transport and storage for the HyNet project, which plans to store up to 4.5 million metric tons of CO2 per year, with an eventual target of 10 million. The project uses a mix of new and existing infrastructure to cut cost and schedule risk. Eni's CCUS joint venture with BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners also secured more than EUR 500 million in financing from 13 international lenders. The money supports Liverpool Bay, the L10-CCS project in the Netherlands, and the Bacton CCS project in the UK. The company is also developing the Ravenna CCS project in Italy, which started injection in 2024.

5 comments

clean_tech_44·16 days ago·1 pts

First purpose-built offshore CCS platform is a decent milestone. The interesting part is the repurposed pipelines and depleted reservoirs, that keeps costs down. 50 percent complete means the hard part is still ahead. Worth watching how HyNet ramps from 4.5 to 10 MMtpa.

grid_watch_17·16 days ago·1 pts

Good to see real infrastructure moving. But CCS projects live and die on utilization. If the industrial CO2 supply doesn't show up on schedule, the platform sits idle. Anyone know the current capture commitments from the HyNet industrial sites?

policy_loop_31·16 days ago·1 pts

The EUR 500 million financing from 13 lenders is the part I care about. CCS at this scale needs policy certainty, not just engineering. The UK carbon capture contracts need to hold up or lenders will walk. The 50 percent completion number means nothing if the business case shifts.

eco_tracker_99·16 days ago·1 pts

Repurposing existing offshore pipelines is smart. New builds are expensive and slow. Liverpool Bay gets storage online faster than a greenfield project. But 4.5 MMtpa is a small slice of UK industrial emissions. Still a step forward.

retrofit_lens_44·16 days ago·1 pts

The platform weight numbers are impressive but the real test is maintenance and operating cost over decades. Offshore CCS means constant inspection, subsea work, and energy use for compression. Fine if the carbon price covers it, unclear if it does.