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UK's First CCS Pipeline Begins Offshore Construction

Published

28 July 2026

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technology

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Climate Tech

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United Kingdom

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Fusion42 · 28 July 2026 · Fusion42 review

UK's first carbon capture and storage pipeline, the Northern Endurance Partnership, has begun offshore construction on a 149-km CO₂ transport line linking industrial emitters in Teesside and the Humber to North Sea storage. The project is expected to handle 23 million metric tonnes of CO₂ annually at full capacity and has already awarded £2 billion in contracts to 260+ UK companies.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Climate Tech.

◆ The Wire takeaway

The first working CCS network in the UK just moved from planning to construction, and it needs 260+ suppliers across pipes, equipment, port handling and systems integration. If you make compressors, valves, dehydration kit, monitoring sensors or control software for industrial gas infrastructure, you now have a proven customer list and a £2bn contract template to replicate at other industrial clusters.

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1 source · 28 Jul 2026

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