UK government approves Viking CCS pipeline project

The UK government has approved plans for a 55km carbon capture pipeline in eastern England.

The Viking CCS pipeline will transport captured carbon dioxide from industrial sites near Immingham on the Humber estuary to the Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal on the Lincolnshire coast – a stretch of North Sea shoreline in the east of England.

From there, it will connect to the existing LOGGS pipeline system, which historically transported natural gas from offshore fields to the mainland and will now be repurposed for CO2 storage.