Technip has won a contract from Shell UK to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) for the onshore elements of the Peterhead Gas Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) demonstration project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

The Scottish project designed to capture, compress and transport by pipeline 1 million t/y of carbon dioxide to an offshore gas reservoir for long-term storage beneath the North Sea was chosen in 2013 as one of two CCS demonstration projects to progress to the next stage of the UK government's Department of Energy and Climate Change CCS competition.

It could be the first commercial CCS to be realized anywhere in the world.

The French engineering contractor said the FEED scope includes a grassroots carbon capture and compression plant and modifications to an existing combined cycle gas turbine power plant.

Technip's operating center in Milton Keynes, UK, which executed a pre-FEED study for the Peterhead CCS project in 2012, will handle the FEED for this phase.

Shell is developing the Peterhead CCS project with strategic support from SSE Generation, which owns and operates the Peterhead Power Station.