據離岸工程網站7月1日消息 挪威能源巨頭Equinor周三表示，將在英國建造一座碳儲存工廠，捕獲的碳將被儲存在北海的近海儲存庫中。

Equinor表示，該設施將是英國乃至世界上第一個規模化的設施之一，該設施將結合碳捕獲和儲存（CCS）從天然氣中生產氫氣。

Equinor表示，這個名為“Humber Saltend”的項目為英國排放量最大的亨伯地區的脫碳產業集群提供了開端。

該項目將位于赫爾市附近的Saltend Chemicals Park，其初始階段包括一個600兆瓦的自動熱轉化爐（ATR），該裝置具有碳捕獲功能，是世界上最大的將天然氣轉化為氫氣的工廠。

Equinor 表示：“這將使園區內的工業客戶能夠完全轉向氫氣，而園區內的發電廠將轉向30%的氫-天然氣混合物。因此，Saltend Chemicals Park每年的二氧化碳排放量將減少近90萬噸。”

Per Equinor、Saltend Chemicals Park包括化工廠和Triton Power的聯合循環燃氣輪機（CCGT）發電站，目前每年排放約350萬噸二氧化碳。

Equinor表示：“在項目的初始階段之后，排放量預計將下降到260萬噸。”

二氧化碳排放將被收集起來，并通過管道向東輸送到位于北海南部的持久含水層中的近海地下蓄水層。

吳恒磊 編譯自 離岸工程

原文如下：

UK: Equinor Building Hydrogen Plant with Offshore CCS

Norwegian energy giant Equinor said Wednesday it would build a gas-to-hydrogen plant in the UK in combination with carbon capture and storage. The captured carbon would be stored in offshore storage in the North Sea.

Equinor said the facility would be "one of the UK’s – and the world’s – first at-scale facilities to produce hydrogen from natural gas in combination with carbon capture and storage (CCS)."

The project, called Hydrogen to Humber Saltend (H2H Saltend), provides the beginnings of a decarbonized industrial cluster in the Humber region, the UK’s largest by emissions, Equinor said.

The project will be located at Saltend Chemicals Park near the city of Hull and its initial phase comprises a 600-megawatt auto thermal reformer (ATR) with carbon capture, "the largest plant of its kind in the world, to convert natural gas to hydrogen."

"It will enable industrial customers in the Park to fully switch over to hydrogen, and the power plant in the Park to move to a 30% hydrogen to natural gas blend. As a result, emissions from Saltend Chemicals Park will reduce by nearly 900,000 tonnes of CO2 per year," Equinor added.

Per Equinor, Saltend Chemicals Park, which comprises chemicals plants and Triton Power’s Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power station, currently emits around 3.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year.

"Following the initial phase of the project, emissions are projected to fall to 2.6 million tonnes," Equinor said.

Carbon dioxide emissions will be captured and transported east by pipeline to offshore underground storage in the Endurance aquifer, located in the Southern North Sea.