SLB awarded contract for UK’s Northern Endurance CCS project

TEESSIDE, July 22, 2025 – SLB has secured a contract to provide technologies and services for carbon storage site development in the North Sea as part of the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) project, the company said on Tuesday.

The company will use its Sequestri carbon storage solutions to drill six wells, covering services such as drilling, measurement, cementing, completions and wireline. The NEP infrastructure will handle and store up to 4 million tonnes of CO2 per year, with operations set to begin in 2028.

“Technologies and services tailored for carbon storage will play a critical role in shifting the economics and safeguarding the integrity of carbon storage projects before and after the FID,” SLB senior vice-president of industrial decarbonisation Katherine Rojas said.

NEP is developing infrastructure to transport CO2 from the East Coast Cluster — which includes carbon capture projects in Teesside and the Humber — to the Endurance saline aquifer and adjacent stores located offshore in the UK North Sea, which hold up to 1 billion tonnes of CO2 storage capacity.

The Northern Endurance Partnership is a joint venture between bp, Equinor and TotalEnergies. It underpins the East Coast Cluster, one of the UK’s two priority carbon capture and storage developments, aimed at decarbonising the country’s most carbon-intensive industrial regions and supporting its net-zero targets.

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