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 by the mid 2020s, 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
5/6Mt of CO2
per year by 2030,
starting with 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
Alliance agreement between the Acorn Project and Peterhead Carbon Capture Power Station
The Acorn Project partners (PBD, Shell and Harbour), are pleased to announce an alliance with the new low-carbon power station being planned by SSE Thermal and Equinor in Peterhead, North East Scotland. The alliance will see the power station’s captured emissions piped into Acorn’s CO2 transport and storage infrastructure, making the newly announced Peterhead Carbon…
“Back the Scottish Cluster” Campaign Launched
The Scottish Cluster – uniting communities, industries, and businesses to deliver Carbon Capture and Storage (“CCS”), hydrogen and other low carbon technologies, supporting Scotland, the UK and Europe to meet net zero goals, while creating low carbon jobs and sustaining vital but hard to abate industries The Scottish Cluster, led by a cross-sector group of…
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