Italian offshore engineering and construction giant Saipem has won a contract from Eni for work on the Liverpool Bay CCS project in the UK.

The value of the contract is estimated approximately €520m ($592m) over the three years required to complete the project.

The Liverpool Bay CCS project will serve the HyNet industrial cluster, situated in one of the UK’s most energy-intensive industrial districts.

Saipem’s scope of work concerns the EPC and assistance to the commissioning of a new CO2 electrical compression station. This new facility will be integrated with both the offshore and onshore segments of the overall development.

The gas compression and treatment facility will allow for permanent CO2 storage in offshore depleted fields under Liverpool Bay.

This comes less than a week after Eni reached the financial close with the UK Government’s Department of Energy Security and Net Zero for the project.

The Liverpool Bay CCS project will operate as the backbone of the HyNet Cluster to transport carbon dioxide from capture plants across the North West of England and North Wales through new and repurposed infrastructure to safe and permanent storage in Eni’s depleted natural gas reservoirs, located under the seabed in Liverpool Bay.

The project itself foresees the efficient repurposing of part of the offshore platforms as well as 149 km of onshore and offshore pipelines, and the construction of 35 km of new pipelines to connect industrial emitters to the Liverpool Bay CCS network.