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ENI is the operator of the transport and storage of carbon dioxide for HyNet North West, one of the two “Track 1” Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects in the UK. The project is focussed on decarbonisation of industrial facilities in the North West of England and North Wales.

The Hynet project is expected to start in the middle of this decade with an injection rate of approximately 4.5 million per year in the first phase, and has the capacity to reach approximately 10 million tonnes of CO₂ per year from 2030. The volume of CO₂ emissions avoided represents a significant share of the 20-30 million industrial emissions reduction target associated with CCS by the UK Government, and will also contribute 40% to the national target of producing 10GW of low carbon hydrogen.

Our speakers will describe the plans to store CO2 in the depleted Hamilton, Hamilton North and Lennox reservoirs offshore in Liverpool Bay– involving repurposing of the existing pipeline from Connahs Quay to the Point of Ayr and offshore to the fields, the repurposing of existing offshore facilities, drilling new wells and side-tracking existing wells to create an infrastructure of injection wells and monitoring wells.

Speakers:

Bruce Becker Biography

Bruce has over 40 years’ wide-ranging experience in all aspects of the upstream industry including drilling, reservoir engineering, corporate planning, business development and LNG. He also has broad geographic experience having worked in the UK, Norway, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.

On joining Eni UK in 2009, he primarily managed their extensive Non-Operated Asset business before being appointed Project Manager for the Liverpool Bay Carbon Transportation and Storage Project (HyNet NW) in 2020. Since then, he has led the technical team responsible for stewarding the project from the initial Concept Selection phase to a Final investment Decision proposal. This period included the successful selection of the HyNet NW project as a Track-1 Cluster by the UK Government in 2021. During his time as Project Manager, he has acted as a key interface with a number of Government authorities and System Users to help jointly shape this complex ‘first-of-a-kind’ project.

Guglielmo Luigi Daniele Facchi Biography

Guglielmo holds a MSc in Engineering Physics, and a Specializing Master in Petroleum Engineering. On joining Eni in 2015, he primarily followed the reservoir studies of onshore Congo.

Since 2018 his activities are centred on CO₂ injection and storage, focusing on isothermal and non-isothermal compositional reservoir modelling, geomechanics and geochemistry studies on the various CO₂ projects in Eni’s Portfolio.

He is involved in the HyNet North-West Project since its inception, dealing with and supervising the subsurface modelling, covering all the aspects related to the storage conformance: near-wellbore thermal effects, reactive transport modelling and fluid-flow.