Wedoany.com Report-Aug. 9, Halliburton has secured a contract to provide completion and downhole monitoring services for the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) carbon capture and storage (CCS) system in the East Coast Cluster of northeast England. The company will manufacture and supply most of the required equipment from its completion manufacturing facility in Arbroath, United Kingdom.

'Halliburton is pleased to develop and deliver innovative well completions and monitoring solutions for this groundbreaking carbon storage project'.

The NEP infrastructure includes a carbon dioxide (CO2) collection network, onshore compression facilities, a 91-mile offshore pipeline, and subsea injection and monitoring systems for the Endurance saline aquifer, located approximately 3,281 feet beneath the seabed. The system is designed to transport and store up to 4 million metric tons of CO2 initially, with operations expected to commence in 2028.

Jean-Marc Lopez, senior vice president of Halliburton, stated: “Halliburton is pleased to develop and deliver innovative well completions and monitoring solutions for this groundbreaking carbon storage project. This project allows expansion of our completions activity and showcases Halliburton’s leadership in CCS projects. We look forward to the opportunity to deliver our services to support the NEP project.”

Halliburton’s U.K. facility in Arbroath supports North Sea operations, offering on-site product development, testing, and advanced manufacturing capabilities. The NEP, a joint venture formed in 2020 by BP PLC, Equinor ASA, and TotalEnergies SE, serves as the CO2 transportation and storage provider for the Teesside and Humber industrial clusters.

The NEP has also awarded several offshore contracts to advance the CCS infrastructure. Following financial close in December 2024, the project is moving into the execution phase, supporting three initial carbon capture initiatives on Teesside: NZT Power, H2Teesside, and Teesside Hydrogen CO2 Capture.

Sonardyne will conduct environmental monitoring at key locations above and around the storage site, a deep saline aquifer off the Teesside coast, starting in summer 2026. This two-year monitoring will establish an environmental baseline before CO2 injection begins.

Aquaterra Energy received two contracts: one for the safe re-abandonment of two legacy wells using a vertical well re-entry tieback method to ensure long-term storage integrity, and another for seabed-to-surface access systems for six new subsea CO2 injection wells. Additionally, BP, on behalf of NEP, awarded Noble Corporation a drilling contract for the Noble Innovator rig to drill six confirmed CO2 injection wells, with an option for two more, starting in the third quarter of 2026.

Expro will provide integrated well testing services for two wells in the Endurance reservoir to assess suitability for future CCS operations, utilizing its well testing, fluid sampling, and subsea technology expertise.