Seabed monitoring starts at UK CCS project to prepare for CO2 injection

Six lander systems have been installed at the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) project, the UK's first commercial-scale offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, to monitor the seabed before CO2 injection starts.

Sonardyne, a Kraken Robotics company, reported the start of baseline environmental and passive seismic monitoring at the project, following the deployment of the six seabed lander systems at the Endurance CO2 store, in the Southern North Sea, about 150 kilometers off the coast of Teesside.

The monitoring landers will support the long-term measurement, monitoring and verification (MMV) program for offshore CO2 storage by helping establish the robust, repeatable data needed to monitor the reservoir integrity effectively over time.

Three autonomous environmental monitoring landers designed and built by Sonardyne and three co-located TIAMAT passive seismic monitoring systems from K.U.M. are collecting baseline data on seawater chemistry, currents, seabed conditions and passive seismic activity before future CO2 injection operations begin. This will support continued monitoring across the storage lifecycle.

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