The Viking gas field lies under the North Sea
RWE to work with Viking CCS network
Development partnership will see two firms work together to capture CO₂ from two CCGTs in the Humber region
German utility RWE has entered into a development partnership with Edinburgh-based independent Harbour Energy to investigate options to capture, transport and store CO₂ from two of RWE’s gas-fired power stations in the UK via Harbour’s Viking carbon capture and storage (CCS) network. The power stations being evaluated are the 1.7GW Staythorpe combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) near Newark and a newbuild CCGT at an RWE-owned site on the Humber. The captured CO₂ would be sent to the site of the former Theddlethorpe gas terminal before being transported 140km and injected into Harbour’s depleted Viking gas field in the North Sea. “The involvement of RWE, one of the UK’s largest power producers,
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