Wood completes FEED for Saudi CCS hub

Wood has completed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) scope for the first phase of Aramco’s Accelerated Carbon Capture and Sequestration (ACCS) project in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, which is being developed with partners SLB and Linde

The Jubail CCs hub set to be the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) hub upon completion in 2027, with the capacity to capture nine million metric tonnes of CO2 and sequester them within onshore geological storage.

Key role in reducing emissions

Aramco sees CCS as playing a key role in global efforts to reduce emissions. The first phase of the ACCS project intends to capture carbon emissions from Aramco gas plant facilities near Jubail, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia, as well as from third-party emitters.

Wood designed the greenfield dehydration and compression facilities and the large pipeline network, including a 200+ km dense-phase CO2 pipeline for the ACCS project, designed to transport the emissions. Aramco plans to store up to 14 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of CO2 equivalent by 2035 – contributing towards the Kingdom reaching its CCUS goal of 44 MTPA by 2035.

Craig Shanaghey, Wood’s executive president of Projects, said, “We are proud to be at the forefront of designing the future of energy by leveraging our 20 years of experience in carbon capture engineering to bring the ACCS project to life, supporting Aramco as our long-term client on its energy security and transition ambitions.

“The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has underlined the significant role CCS can potentially play in helping to reach the 2-degree goal set out in the Paris Agreement, and it is investments like this world-leading project that can support that progress and make a tangible difference to reduce the carbon emissions of heavy industries.”