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.
About ACT Acorn
News and Events
As work proceeds on different areas of the ACT Acorn project, we bring you the latest reports, which are now available in the new Downloads section of our website.
The ACT Acorn Consortium invites you to join our first webinar, Acorn 2025: a pathway to decarbonising the UK.
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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.