Project Partners
The ACT Acorn team draws down a range of expertise from academia and the energy sector. Find out more about our partners and their roles in the project.
A scalable full-chain industrial CCS project
About ACT Acorn
News and Events
In December, ERA-NET ACT reflected on the strong presence of first-phase ACT projects, including Acorn, at the GHGT-14 conference in Melbourne, Australia, two months previously.
UK Energy Minister Claire Perry and Scotland’s Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse tested their carbon storage skills in a game of skittles at an international conference held in Edinburgh last week
How time flies. Exactly one year ago, the ACT Acorn team were in Peterhead for our project kick-off meeting, forming connections and planning the work ahead.
Research Areas
Research Areas
The ACT Acorn project brings together researchers from the Netherlands, Norway and the UK to take a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in north east Scotland from proof-of-concept towards full design studies. By building on research from the Acorn project, such as the appraisal of geological CO2 storage sites below the North Sea and options for re-using oil and gas assets, we aim to deliver a low-cost CCS system by 2023.
The project, with support from the European Union’s ERA-NET ACT fund, will consider a step-by-step approach to minimise initial investment. It will start with CO2 capture and storage from the St Fergus gas terminal and then explore options for building out to other large-scale CO2 emitters to create a regional CCS network in Scotland. Our results will also guide similar developments in other North Sea regions and further afield.