Petrofac Wins Major FEED Contract for Carbon Capture & Storage Project

British energy services company Petrofac has been awarded a multi-million dollar front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to support the Aramis CO2 capture and storage project.

The Aramis project, which is a collaboration between TotalEnergies, Shell, Energie Beheer Netherlands (EBN) and Gasunie aims to create infrastructure that will allow Dutch industrial firms to transport CO2 - captured during the course of their operations - to depleted gas fields under the North Sea. 

Petrofac will be responsible for the decommissioning of topsides as well as the installation of a new repurposed injection platform; this will be connected to the Aramis CO2 distribution network. 

Commenting on the new FEED contract, John Pearson, chief operating officer for energy transition projects at Petrofac, said: 

“This award demonstrates confidence in our abilities to provide vital engineering and project delivery expertise to projects that span the CCS value chain. This project, associated with the overall Aramis development, is another key component to the Netherlands’ ambition to capture millions of tonnes of CO2 from industrial emitters in the region”.

The Aramis project is set to be developed in phases, with design of the concept taking place throughout 2024. A final investment decision (FID) is expected in 2025 or 2026, with the project being ready for startup by 2028. 

From 2030 onwards, Aramis is expected to be expanded as further industrial emitters seek to sequester their CO2 emissions. As the project states, ‘It will be based on an ‘open access’ philosophy so that other industrial customers and storage fields can be added incrementally to the system’. 

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