Planning permission has been granted for a world-first Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) facility in Scotland.

Shell UK, supported by SSE wants to develop the first commercial scale, gas-fired CCS project near Peterhead.

The project aims to capture one million tonnes of CO2 a year for ten to 15 years at the existing SSE power station in Boddam.


The onshore works consist of developing and operating a carbon dioxide capture, compression and conditioning plant, modifying the existing power station and developing a CO2 export pipeline.

The offshore elements include transporting the CO2 via new and existing pipelines along with injecting it into the depleted Goldeneye gas reservoir, over 2km under the seabed of the North Sea.

However these aspects are subject to an application to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Permission was granted by Aberdeenshire Council following a meeting on 18 June.

(LM)