Viking CCS

Viking CCS is a large-scale carbon capture, transportation, and storage project led by Harbour Energy, with bp holding a 40% stake. Designed to decarbonize the Humber region, the UK’s most industrialized and carbon-intensive area, the project plans to capture, transport, and securely store up to 10 million tonnes of CO₂ annually by 2030, expanding to 15 million tonnes per year by 2035. It will use existing infrastructure such as the repurposed Lincolnshire Offshore Gas Gathering System (LOGGS) pipeline, alongside a new onshore pipeline and a CO₂ import terminal at the Port of Immingham. Captured CO₂ will be transported to the depleted Viking and Victor gas fields in the Southern North Sea, where it will be stored more than 2.7 kilometers beneath the seabed within secure geological formations. Expected to begin operations by 2027–2028, Viking CCS could unlock £7 billion in investment, create over 10,000 jobs during construction, and contribute around £4 billion in gross value added to the region by 2030. The UK government has backed the project as part of its Track-2 CCS cluster strategy, highlighting its potential to deliver one-third of the nation’s 2030 CO₂ storage target.