CGG, a global technological leader in geoscience, established a strategic alliance with Kent, a major energy services engineering company, to jointly pursue decarbonization potential through CCUS research and hydrogen production and delivery.
CGG and Kent will provide ‘end-to-end’ services to customers in the energy and industrial sectors throughout the life of the projects. For instance, from subsurface characterization necessary for storage screening and evaluation to project engineering, planning, construction, and commissioning, as well as late-life activities such as decommissioning and long-term monitoring involving instrumentation and data management.
This collaboration enables the masterplanning of entire CCUS clusters. CGG will use its world-leading capabilities for subsurface characterisation and risk analysis, as well as monitoring and instrumentation technology, to conduct long-term monitoring and environmental assessment, on CCUS and H2 projects. Additionally, CGG maintains a large Earth Data library of geology and seismic multi-client data to assist clients in rapidly identifying potential storage locations in depleted oil and gas reservoirs and aquifers. Kent will contribute to the partnership its world-class expertise in facility engineering and design, CO2 capture, pipeline transportation to the wellhead, and co-operation with CGG from the wellhead to the storage reservoir.
CGG has over 15 years of expertise with a variety of high-profile CCUS projects worldwide, including Sleipner, Troll, Weyburn, Pembina, and Gorgon. CGG can assist clients throughout the CCUS and Energy Storage lifecycles, including H2. This can be done during the initial screening of suitable storage locations, during injection operations, and also to optimize economics and long-term monitoring after injection is complete.
Kent has been involved in over 50 CCUS projects globally and was a key player in one of the largest operational CCUS systems in the world, located at Boundary Dam in Canada. Kent also has over 50 years of expertise with hydrogen projects, most recently with the UK’s HyNet. Kent and CGG will leverage their industry-leading experience to provide realistic feasibility studies and concept drawings to assist clients with their stage gating procedures.
John Kent, Chief Energy Transition Officer, Kent, said: “Kent is delighted to collaborate with CGG and highlight the benefits of CCUS and hydrogen production that will play an important role in decarbonising the broader energy sector. By bringing our complementary capabilities together, we can help each other, and our customers, move at a faster pace on the energy transition journey. Working together is critical if we are going to decarbonise the sector fully – no one company or organisation can do it alone. So we at Kent are actively looking for partnerships such as these that facilitate information sharing and a faster transition to net-zero.”
Peter Whiting, EVP, Geoscience, CGG, said: “Our partnership with Kent will provide clients in energy and industrial sectors with the end-to-end solutions they need to achieve their energy transition goals with CCUS and H2 storage projects. By capitalizing on the capabilities of both companies we can bring to our customers a fully integrated view of their projects from the subsurface to the surface across the lifecycle of these projects. Kent and CGG both share the same commitment to playing an active role in the energy transition, and to service excellence, helping our clients to meet their net zero targets.”
