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Sonardyne has been selected
through a competitive bidding
process to deliver baseline
environmental monitoring
services for the UK’s first
offshore carbon capture and
storage (CCS) site.
The company has been
contracted by the Northern
Endurance Partnership (NEP),
the developer of the onshore
and offshore infrastructure
needed to transport carbon
dioxide (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.
Sonardyne will provide
environmental monitoring, in
SEABED MONITORING LANDERS AND
ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR NEP PROJECT
1000TH TESTING TOOL
the form of seabed landers, at key
locations above and around the
subsurface Endurance site – the
saline aquifer located 145km off
the coast of Teesside where
captured CO2 will be stored.
Monitoring of the site will begin in
the summer of 2026 to provide
baseline data for a duration of
two years before the
transportation and storage of
captured CO2 commences. The
seabed landers will be equipped
with Sonardyne’s Edge data
processing application, power
management and acoustic
through-water communications to
enable long-term, remote battery-
operated deployment.
Each lander will also contain a
suite of hardware including
Sonardyne’s Origin 600 ADCP,
Wavefront’s passive sonar array
and multiple third-party sensors.
Together, this technology can
detect small changes in water
chemistry across a wide area,
while the data can be harvested,
without retrieving the lander,
using wireless subsea acoustic
communication techniques.
Monitoring is a key activity for
offshore CCS developments
to verify safe containment
of CO2 within the
reservoir, provide
reassurance to
stakeholders and foster
public confidence in this
greenhouse gas
abatement process.
Sonardyne will
provide seabed
landers at key
locations around
the subsurface
Endurance site.
C-Kore Systems is celebrating
an exciting milestone with the
deployment of their 1000th
subsea testing tool, to Australia.
This significant achievement
was marked by the mobilisation
of the C-Kore tools to an
Australian offshore energy
project for one of their key
customers, Fugro.
Australia is one of C-Kore's
largest markets, where their
tools are helping oil and gas
operators save money by
simplifying their subsea testing
operations.
C-Kore's subsea testing tools
have quickly become a game
changer in the offshore oil and
gas industry, earning
widespread recognition with
both operators and contractors
for their quick and accurate
results. The ease of use of the
battery powered autonomous
units means specialised
offshore personnel are not
required to accompany the
units, equating to big cost
savings on offshore testing
campaign.
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C-Kore receiving the King’s Award