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Bacton CCS Limited is a private limited company incorporated in the United Kingdom in September 2023. It serves as the dedicated project company responsible for developing and operating the Bacton Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the Southern North Sea.
The company's primary activities involve holding and managing the carbon dioxide storage licence CS008 for the Hewett depleted gas field, which was transferred to it from Eni UK Ltd in July 2024. It has conducted appraisal activities, including the drilling of the first dedicated carbon storage appraisal well on the field in 2025. The project aims to establish infrastructure for the transport and permanent geological storage of CO₂, with planned capacity reaching up to 10 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) and a total reservoir storage potential of approximately 300 to 330 million tonnes.
Operating in the East of England region, centred around the Bacton Gas Terminal, the company plans to connect to local industrial emitters via pipelines and potentially receive CO₂ shipments from the Isle of Grain or continental Europe. Bacton CCS Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eni CCUS Holding Limited, ultimately controlled by the Italian energy major Eni SpA. This positions the company as a key player in Eni's expanding CCUS portfolio and among the pioneering projects in the UK's carbon storage licensing regime, contributing to national net-zero goals by decarbonising industrial sectors in the South East and enabling potential cross-border CO₂ management solutions.
chemXplore tracks 1 project involving Bacton CCS, of which one is active.
Around two-thirds of the planned spending is allocated to lower-carbon sectors, including carbon capture, offshore wind and fusion.
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