Halliburton has secured a contract for the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) carbon capture and storage (CCS) system, part of the East Coast Cluster (ECC) in north-east England.

Under this contract, the company will deliver completions and downhole monitoring services.

The equipment necessary for the CCS project will be primarily manufactured at Halliburton's UK completion manufacturing facility in Arbroath, Scotland.

This facility has been instrumental in backing North Sea operations for more than five decades, offering manufacturing capabilities and on-site product development and testing resources.

Halliburton Europe, Eurasia and sub-Saharan Africa senior vice-president Jean-Marc Lopez said: “Halliburton is pleased to develop and deliver innovative well completions and monitoring solutions for this groundbreaking carbon storage project.

“This project allows expansion of our completions activity and showcases Halliburton’s leadership in CCS projects. We look forward to the opportunity to deliver our services to support the NEP project.”

The NEP infrastructure is engineered to oversee a CO₂ collection network, onshore compression facilities, a 145-km offshore pipeline, and subsea injection and monitoring systems for the Endurance saline aquifer. It is situated roughly 1,000m beneath the sea floor.

The system aims to transport and permanently store up to an initial four million tonnes per annum of CO₂.

NEP, established in 2020 as the ECC's CO₂ transportation and storage provider, is a joint venture (JV) comprising Equinor, bp and TotalEnergies.

The JV will manage the transport and storage of CO₂ emissions from the industrial clusters of Teesside and Humber.

Earlier in the year, Halliburton also secured a five-year contract with Repsol Resources UK to improve the full well life cycle at Repsol’s platform assets in the UK North Sea.