OUR GREAT MINDS

    by Tina Olivero

    NEW CARBON CAPTURE TECH: For power and petrochemical facilities


    Wood, the global engineering and consultancy company, is delivering the concept selection and early design for the UK’s Humber Zero project which aims to create a zero-carbon industrial cluster, in a new contract for VPI Immingham.

    The project will integrate established industrial sites with state-of-the-art technology to capture carbon. The concept will help reduce carbon emissions from power and petrochemical facilities, as well as create a sustainable platform for industrial growth and economic development and meet decarbonisation targets. 

    Wood is developing an overall masterplan for carbon reductions across three sites in the Immingham area, including VPI Immingham Combined Heat & Power Plant, Phillips 66 Humber Refinery, and Uniper Killingholme Power Plant. The innovative concept includes three phases of development over the next decade to capture, treat, and compress up to 8 million tonnes per annum of carbon dioxide for permanent storage in the geological formations below the UK North Sea. 

    Evaluating the specific needs of different industrial processes on three operating sites has led to a plan involving several complementary technologies, including use of renewable power to generate green hydrogen through electrolysis, generation of blue hydrogen with integrated carbon capture, and post-combustion carbon capture from existing stacks.

    Joe Sczurko, CEO of Wood’s Technical Consulting Solutions business, said: “We are delighted to be working alongside VPI Immingham on the landmark Humber Zero project to support the next phase of sustainable development in the region. 

    “With decades of multi-sector experience, Wood is focused on driving the global energy transition and supporting a milestone project of this kind which could create a model for industrial decarbonisation around the world. It will also play an important role in helping the UK government meet its ambitious energy targets, including reaching net zero by 2050.”

    Jonathan Briggs, project director at VPI Immingham, said: “We are pleased that the Humber Zero project will benefit from Wood’s technical and industry expertise. The project’s success will depend on careful, detailed planning and flawless execution. Wood are well placed to help us deliver this industry-leading project.”

    The Humber Zero project will form a significant element of the UK’s industrial decarbonisation strategy, making up one third of the Humberside industrial cluster. It is one of five locations – along with Teesside, Merseyside, South Wales and North East Scotland – identified as well-suited to early carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) deployment by the Committee of Climate Change (CCC). 

    WOOD
    Wood is a global leader in consulting, projects and operations solutions in energy and the built environment. We operate in more than 60 countries, employing over 55,000 people, with revenues of around $10 billion. www.woodplc.com


    Tina Olivero

    30 years ago, Tina Olivero looked into the future and saw an opportunity to make a difference for her province and people. That difference came in the form of the oil and gas sector. Six years before there was even a drop of oil brought to the shores of Newfoundland, she founded The Oil and Gas Magazine (THE OGM) from a back room in her home on Signal Hill Road, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A single mother, no financing, no previous journalism or oil and gas experience, she forged ahead, with a creative vision and one heck of a heaping dose of sheer determination. With her pioneering spirit, Ms. Olivero developed a magazine that would educate, inspire, motivate and entertain oil and gas readers around the world — She prides herself in marketing and promoting our province and resources in unprecedented ways. The OGM is a magazine that focuses on our projects, our people, our opportunities and ultimately becomes the bridge to new energy outcomes and a sustainable new energy world. Now diversifying into the communications realms, a natural progression from the Magazine, The OGM now offers an entirely new division - Oil & Gas Media. Today, The Oil and Gas Magazine is a global phenomenon that operates not only in Newfoundland, but also in Calgary and is read by oil and gas enthusiasts in Norway, Aberdeen, across the US and as far reaching as Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. Believing that Energy is everyone’s business, Ms. Olivero has combined energy + culture to embrace the worlds commitment to a balance of work and home life as well as fostering a foundation for health and well being. In this era of growth and development business and lifestyle are an eloquent mix, there is no beginning or end. Partnering with over 90 oil and gas exhibitions and conferences around the world, Ms. Olivero's role as a Global Visionary is to embrace communication in a way that fosters oil and gas business and industry growth in new and creative ways.

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