Independent subsurface and well engineering consultancy Elemental Energies has secured a two-year contract with Harbour Energy to provide technical support for the expansion of the Viking CCS offshore carbon transport and storage project.
The scope of work focuses on maturing the Viking East and Viking West offshore storage sites, located beneath the UK Southern North Sea. Elemental Energies will deliver integrated geomechanics, reservoir geology, subsurface modeling, and well engineering studies designed to de-risk storage capacity, seal containment, and long-term CO2 injectivity as the development moves toward a final investment decision (FID).
The additional storage locations are being developed alongside the project’s anchor geological formation to scale up capacity beyond its initial operational phase.
The contract expands Elemental Energies’ footprint in low-carbon well engineering and subsea storage assurance, building on its portfolio of carbon transport and storage developments across the UK and Europe.
Viking CCS is engineered to transport and permanently store captured CO2 from energy-intensive industrial facilities located within the Humber regional industrial cluster.
The project targets an initial sequestration capacity of up to 4 million tons of CO2 per year from the early 2030s, with long-term plans to scale capacity as additional domestic and imported CO2 streams are integrated.
The contract win follows momentum for the Viking CCS initiative, which previously secured a £65.5 million development funding package alongside progress on front-end engineering design (FEED) and the onshore transport pipeline Development Consent Order (DCO).
“Projects like Viking CCS demonstrate the value of bringing together subsurface, geomechanics and well engineering expertise within a single integrated team, providing the technical insight and assurance needed to manage risk and support confident decision-making,” said Mike Adams, Chief Executive at Elemental Energies.
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