Halliburton today announced a contract award to provide completions and downhole monitoring services for the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) carbon capture and storage (CCS) system in northeast England’s East Coast Cluster (ECC).

Halliburton will manufacture and deliver the majority of the equipment required for this project from its U.K. completion manufacturing facility in Arbroath. For more than 50 years, the center has supported North Sea operations and provides on-site product development and testing resources alongside advanced manufacturing capabilities to support efficient production and the delivery of equipment.

Jean-Marc Lopez, senior vice president, Europe, Eurasia, and Sub-Saharan Africa region, Halliburton, commented:
"Halliburton is pleased to develop and deliver innovative well completions and monitoring solutions for this groundbreaking carbon storage project. This project allows expansion of our completions activity and showcases Halliburton’s leadership in CCS projects. We look forward to the opportunity to deliver our services to support the NEP project."

The NEP infrastructure includes a CO2 gathering network and onshore compression facilities, as well as a 145-km offshore pipeline, and subsea injection and monitoring systems for the Endurance saline aquifer, located around 1000 m below the seabed. The infrastructure will transport and permanently store up to an initial 4 million tonnes/yr of CO2.

NEP is a joint venture that includes bp, Equinor, and TotalEnergies. It was formed in 2020 as the ECC CO2 transportation and storage provider, which will transport and store CO2 emissions from the Teesside and Humber regional industrial clusters.

The Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) is developing onshore and offshore infrastructure needed to transport CO2 from carbon capture projects across Teesside and the Humber – collectively known as the East Coast Cluster - to secure storage under the North Sea.

The infrastructure is crucial to achieving net zero in the UK’s most carbon intensive industrial regions.

NEP, via the Endurance saline aquifer and adjacent stores, has access to up to 1 billion tonnes of CO₂ storage capacity.

NEP is in an incorporated joint venture established solely to develop and operate CO₂ transportation and storage infrastructure on behalf of the NEP Shareholders – bp, Equinor and TotalEnergies.

Teesside

NEP is developing the Teesside Carbon Capture Pipeline, the infrastructure to transport CO₂ from industrial carbon capture projects across Teesside to a compression facility and out to the Endurance carbon store via an offshore pipeline.

Humber

NEP is also progressing development work for the Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline - the proposed infrastructure that would transport CO2 from carbon capture projects in the Humber region to secure offshore storage under the North Sea. The infrastructure would enable a connection to carbon capture projects in the Humber selected by DESNZ through the East Coast Cluster expansion process.

Northern Endurance Partnership enabling the East Coast Cluster

The Northern Endurance Partnership enables the East Coast Cluster, one of the first two carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) clusters to be taken forward by the UK Government.

Covering the industrial powerhouse regions of Teesside, and the Humber, the East Coast Cluster includes a diverse mix of carbon capture projects, including industrial carbon capture, low-carbon hydrogen production, negative emissions power, and power with carbon capture.

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