BP, the operator of Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) and ‎the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), has awarded contracts as part of its dual Front ‎End Engineering Design (FEED) competition to two separate consortiums of engineering, ‎carbon capture licensors, power providers and EPC contractors.‎

The awards represent an important step towards the proposed development of the UK’s ‎first full-scale integrated power and carbon capture project. Technip Energies and General Electric consortium and Aker Solutions Doosan Babcock and Siemens Energy consortium will now each deliver a comprehensive FEED package, led from their UK ‎offices, over the next 12 months. Following the completion of the FEED process, the two ‎consortiums will then submit Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) proposals for ‎the execution phase. As part of the Final Investment Decision expected in 2023, a single ‎consortium will be selected to take the project forward into construction.

In October 2021, the UK government selected the Northern Endurance Partnership’s East ‎Coast Cluster as one of the first two clusters be taken forward as part of its carbon capture ‎and storage (CCUS) cluster sequencing process. The Northern Endurance partnership, which ‎bp leads as operator, will provide the common infrastructure needed to transport CO2 from ‎emitters across the Humber and Teesside to secure offshore storage in the Endurance aquifer ‎in the Southern North Sea.‎

The two groups will now design and submit development plans for NZT Power’s proposed ‎power station and carbon capture plant, and NEP’s planned Teesside high pressure carbon ‎dioxide (CO2) compression and export facilities.‎

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