EET Fuels enters FEED stage, appoints Toyo-India for ICC project

Stanlow: EET Fuels, the trading name of Essar Oil UK, which plans to create the world’s leading low-carbon process refinery, has progressed to the front-end engineering design (FEED) stage of its industrial carbon capture (ICC) project.

The company has appointed Toyo Engineering India Pvt Ltd (Toyo-India) (100 per cent subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corporation, Japan) a leading Engineering, Procurement and Construction company, to carry out the FEED phase -- an integral part of the project management process. Toyo-India will oversee design completion, project de-risking, detailed cost analysis and other vital work. Completion of FEED will enable the company to make a final investment decision (FID) on the ICC project.

Upon completion (expected in 2028), the ICC project will capture carbon dioxide emitted from Stanlow refinery’s full-residue fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit -- one of Europe’s largest units. Leveraging Stanlow’s unique location, the captured carbon dioxide will use a repurposed existing gas transportation network and be permanently sequestered into depleted gas fields in Liverpool Bay, as part of the HyNet industrial decarbonisation cluster in the North West of England.

The ICC project is expected to capture 1 million tons of CO2 per year, removing around 45 per cent of all Stanlow emissions.