Penspen, an international energy consultancy, has secured a multi-million-pound contract from United Living Infrastructure Services to advance the development of the HyNet CO₂ transportation pipeline at Liverpool Bay. Under this contract, Penspen will deliver the detailed engineering design for a project that will transform the northwest of England into a world-leading low carbon industrial cluster – and will shape the region’s low-carbon future for decades to come.
Penspen will lead the detailed engineering phase for the development of the onshore CO₂ pipelines and above ground installations (AGIs), which will transport the captured carbon emissions from local industrial emitters in Stanlow to the Liverpool Bay CCS storage facility at Point of Ayr. CO₂ will be transported through a combination of new assets and repurposed infrastructure.
Seventy of Penspen’s engineering specialists will deliver the project from a dedicated office at 280 Holborn, London, with 20 newly onboarded professionals for this scope of work. The project will also be supported by engineering disciplines from Penspen’s Aberdeen office, which has seen significant growth in the last six months.
HyNet North West is a UK-based project comprised of several different elements designed to decarbonise the industry-heavy northwest of the UK around Liverpool Bay. Following the announcement of Government funding in October 2024, the project will implement carbon capture and storage and low carbon hydrogen infrastructure at a large scale, utilising a hydrogen production plant, a hydrogen transport network, and hydrogen storage, with carbon emissions captured and permanently stored in depleted hydrocarbon fields in the Irish Sea.