Wood: Delivering the UK’s East Coast Cluster - from inception to operation
Posted on 08 September 2025
Discover how t are helping shape the future of clean energy through our key role in delivering the UK’s East Coast Cluster - a globally recognised carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) initiative.
As a trusted partner to Net Zero Teesside Power and the Northern Endurance Partnership, Wood has supported this landmark decarbonisation programme since early execution.
Their scope has included concept and FEED design, and now, as part of the integrated project management team (iPMT), we’re helping steer the project toward its 2028 operational target.
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The East Coast Cluster is one of the first two carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) clusters to be taken forward by the UK Government.
The cluster is enabled by the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) the developer of onshore and offshore infrastructure needed to transport CO2 from carbon capture projects across Teesside and the Humber to secure storage under the North Sea.
NEP’s CO2 transportation and storage infrastructure on Teesside will progress in parallel with NZT Power - a first-of-a-kind gas-fired power station with carbon capture technology. Once operational, the combined cycle gas turbine electricity generating station could produce up to 742 megawatts of flexible, dispatchable low-carbon power – equivalent to the average annual electricity requirements of more than 1 million UK homes.
NEP has also been granted government approval to progress development engineering of the Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline (HCCP), the proposed onshore infrastructure project that would transport CO2 from future selected carbon capture projects in the Humber region.
The projects are crucial to achieving net zero in the UK’s most carbon intensive industrial regions.
Read on to discover how Wood is delivering this government-backed programme, which has captured global attention as a pathfinder project for the UK and global energy transition.
What is the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP)?
The Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) is developing onshore and offshore infrastructure needed to transport CO2 from carbon capture projects across Teesside and the Humber – collectively known as the East Coast Cluster - to secure storage under the North Sea.
The infrastructure is crucial to achieving net zero in the UK’s most carbon intensive industrial regions.
NEP, via the Endurance saline aquifer and adjacent stores, has access to up to 1 billion tonnes of CO₂ storage capacity.
NEP is in an incorporated joint venture established solely to develop and operate CO₂ transportation and storage infrastructure on behalf of the NEP Shareholders – bp, Equinor and TotalEnergies.
What is Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power)?
NZT Power aims to be the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage, providing flexible, low-carbon power to the UK grid.
A joint venture between bp and Equinor, NZT Power could generate up to 742 megawatts of flexible, dispatchable low-carbon power equivalent to the average annual electricity requirements of more than 1 million UK homes.
What is Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline (HCCP)?
The Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline is a proposed underground, onshore pipeline with above ground installations that aims to transport carbon dioxide produced by industrial projects in the Humber region to secure offshore storage under the North Sea.
Read more / Source: https://www.woodplc.com/solutions/case-studies/delivering-the-uks-east-coast-cluster
