Baker Hughes assists carbon capture and storage project
20/10/2025
Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by Saipem to supply carbon dioxide (CO2) compression technology for Eni’s Liverpool Bay Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project in the UK. The order was booked in the first quarter of 2025.
As part of the scope, Baker Hughes will supply three advanced CO2 centrifugal compressor trains with electric motors, as well as a Lufkin Gears gearbox. The full compressor package will be used for the reinjection of the CO2, leveraging the decades of experience that Baker Hughes has in carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies, as part of Saipem’s conversion of a traditional gas compression and treatment facility at Point of Ayr, North Wales, into an innovative CO2 electrical compression station, allowing for permanent CO2 storage in offshore depleted fields under Liverpool Bay.
The Liverpool Bay CCS project, which recently reached financial close, will operate as the backbone of the HyNet Cluster, transporting carbon dioxide from capture plants across the North West of England and North Wales through new and repurposed infrastructure to safe and permanent storage in Eni’s depleted natural gas reservoirs, located under the seabed in Liverpool Bay. It is claimed that HyNet is one of the world’s most advanced CCS clusters and will significantly contribute to the reduction of emissions from a wide range of industries across the North West of England and North Wales.
“We are proud to support Saipem and Eni with our advanced, proven compression technologies in a critical project that will deliver sustainable energy development in the UK by decarbonising industry,” said Alessandro Bresciani, Senior Vice President of Climate Technologies Solutions at Baker Hughes. “At Baker Hughes, we are committed to providing technology solutions to improve the economic viability of CO2 projects at scale, as we firmly believe that CCUS plays a key role in driving sustainable energy development.”
The involvement of Baker Hughes in the Liverpool Bay CCS Project follows several other significant orders in the CCS sector, including an award in 2024 to supply compression and power generation equipment to BP for its integrated Tangguh Upstream Carbon Capture (UCC) project at its Tangguh liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Papua Barat, Indonesia. This order includes three gas turbine generators, three heat recovery steam generators and one steam turbine generator for a 175 MW combined power cycle plant to supply power for enhanced gas recovery through carbon capture, utilisation and storage and three electric motor-driven centrifugal compressors to boost feedstock gas from the offshore fields.
More recently, Baker Hughes also announced a strategic partnership with Frontier Infrastructure to accelerate the deployment of large-scale carbon capture and storage and power solutions in the USA.
Baker Hughes’ broad portfolio of carbon capture, utilisation and storage solutions, technologies and services includes consultancy, front-end design, capture and purification systems, fit-for-purpose compression, conditioning and liquefaction technology, well design and construction for injection and monitoring, as well as site stewardship.
