Expro (XPRO), has secured a key contract to deliver integrated well testing services for a high-profile carbon capture and storage (CCS) project offshore UK.
This award follows soon after the industry’s much anticipated December 2024 award of the first ever carbon storage permit by the UK Regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), to the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) for the storage of carbon dioxide in the Endurance reservoir located off the North-East Coast of England.
Expro has been commissioned by NEP to provide critical services that will be needed to appraise two wells in the Endurance reservoir for future CCS suitability.
The production and injection testing of the Endurance aquifer will provide important information that will be used to characterize the reservoir as part of the East Coast Cluster field development plan. Expro will deliver operations using capabilities and technologies from its well testing, fluid sampling and analysis, and subsea business segments. To provide a fully integrated CCS appraisal solution, Expro has selected Baker Hughes to provide its electrical submersible pumps (ESP) and Metrol Technology for Drill Stem Testing (DST), Downhole Data Acquisition, and Wireless Telemetry Services.
The Endurance reservoir has the capacity to store up to 450m tonnes of CO2. It is regarded as critical to achieving UK Government CCS targets of 20-30 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030 and over 50 million tonnes a year by 2035.