UK: Spirit Energy, part of Centrica, has announced the Morecambe Net Zero (MNZ) Peak Cluster development - the world’s largest cement decarbonisation project - has successfully entered the ‘Assess Phase’ of its permit application to store CO2 in the depleted North and South Morecambe fields in the east of the Irish Sea. It follows three years of ‘intense’ work from Spirit’s subsurface, wells, projects, health and safety, commercial and engineering teams, including new high resolution 3D seismic acquisition and advanced 3D seismic imaging of the Morecambe fields to conclusively demonstrate their suitability to store approximately 1Bnt of CO2.
Working with its Peak Cluster partners, MNZ Peak Cluster will transport 3Mt/yr of CO2 from three cement plants – Breedon’s Hope plant, Tarmac’s Tunstead plant, and Holcim UK’s Cauldon plant – as well as from a lime plant operated by Tarmac.
Centrica CEO Chris O’Shea said "This takes us another step closer to delivering one of the UK’s most important infrastructure projects, protecting 13,000 jobs and contributing billions of pounds to the UK economy while cutting emissions at scale. By repurposing the Morecambe fields for carbon storage, we can put existing infrastructure to work again, helping secure the future of essential British industry while making real progress towards net zero.”
