Wood scores pipeline contract for HyNet hydrogen project
UK upstream services company Wood said October 26 that it secured a design contract to help move the HyNet North West hydrogen project forward.
HyNet will take CO2 from an industrial cluster in the northwest, including the hydrogen facilities, and inject it into depleted Liverpool Bay gas fields. This will save the offshore operator, Eni, decommissioning costs and provide it with a new revenue stream. The Italian company already has a licence for CO2 storage from the Oil & Gas Authority to proceed.
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The front-end engineering design (FEED) contract calls on Wood to lead the design, consenting and consultation of a new 85-km pipeline and associated infrastructure designated specifically for hydrogen.
“From 2025, the project will produce, store, and distribute hydrogen, as well as capture and store carbon from industry in the North West of England and North Wales,” Wood said of its FEED contract. “It will use state-of-the-art technology to build new energy infrastructure whilst also upgrading and reusing existing infrastructure currently involved in fossil fuel production.”
HyNet has the potential to sequester as much as 10mn metric tons of CO2 by 2030.
Josh Carmichael, the vice president of hydrogen programmes at Wood, said industries are taking the lead in the energy transition.
“Together with our clients, we’re driving hydrogen production and distribution at pace and at an industrial scale as one of the mission-critical pathways to a more sustainable future,” he said.
Progressive Energy is the project leader for HyNet, alongside Cadent. There are 24 companies that have signed memoranda of understanding “to actively explore the potential to switch to hydrogen as soon as it is available from HyNet.”
Wood offered no financial or other contractual details.