About Acorn
Well-placed
Acorn is strategically located in Aberdeenshire to make best use of legacy oil and gas infrastructure and Scotland's excellent geology for CO2 storage. The region is also committed to developing hydrogen as a fuel of the future.
Efficient
Acorn can grow as the demand to store CO2 grows. We'll start with modest quantities to begin with and use this to kick-start a much larger CO2 transportation and storage solution.
Delivers for Net Zero
Acorn can be operating in 2024, establishing the infrastructure essential for meeting UK Net Zero targets, and helping to build a fairer, more resilient economy - transforming our carbon intensive industries and sustaining jobs.
A LOW CAPITAL COST START
Eliminating around
300,000
tonnes per year
of existing CO2 emissions from the St Fergus gas terminal.
PIPELINE
REUSE
From St Fergus
420km
OFFSHORE STORAGE
Around
30%
GAS
ACCESS
Around
35%
of all natural gas used in the UK is processed at St Fergus. Natural gas supply is key to bulk hydrogen generation.
Latest news
Government commitment to low carbon technology provides a major step forward for green recovery
St Fergus in North East Scotland could be home to critical net zero infrastructure. Image Credit: Shell Pale Blue Dot, the lead developer of the Acorn carbon capture and storage and hydrogen project in Scotland warmly welcomes today’s announcement of a further investment in low carbon technology. Nick Cooper, CEO of Pale Blue Dot, said, …
Hydrogen Demand – Expression of Interest
The Hydrogen in Scotland report published in September 2020 summarises that Scotland could be producing 121 TWh of hydrogen by 2050 through a combination of hydrogen supplied from the reforming of natural gas with carbon capture and storage (blue hydrogen) and the electrolysis of water (green hydrogen). Acorn Hydrogen will initiate large scale hydrogen production…
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