Baker Hughes to Provide CO₂ Compressor Technology to Saipem

Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, announced it has been awarded a contract by Saipem to supply carbon dioxide (CO2) compression technology for Eni’s Liverpool Bay Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project in the UK. The order was booked in the first quarter of 2025.

As part of the scope, Baker Hughes will supply three advanced CO2 centrifugal compressor trains with electric motors, as well as Lufkin Gears gearbox. The full compressor package will be used for the re-injection of the CO2, leveraging Baker Hughes’ decades of experience in CCUS technologies, as part of Saipem’s conversion of a traditional gas compression and treatment facility at Point of Ayr, in north Wales, into an innovative CO2 electrical compression station allowing for permanent CO2 storage in offshore depleted fields under Liverpool Bay.

The Liverpool Bay CCS project, which recently reached financial close, will operate as the backbone of the HyNet Cluster to transport carbon dioxide from capture plants across the North West of England and North Wales through new and repurposed infrastructure to safe and permanent storage in Eni’s depleted natural gas reservoirs, located under the seabed in Liverpool Bay. HyNet is one of the world’s most advanced CCS Clusters that will significantly contribute to the reduction of emissions from a wide range of industries across the North West of England and North Wales.

Baker Hughes’ involvement in the Liverpool Bay CCS Project follows several other significant orders in the CCS sector, including an award in 2024 to supply compression and power generation equipment to bp for its integrated Tangguh UCC project at its Tangguh LNG plant in Papua Barat, Indonesia. This order includes three gas turbine generators, three heat recovery steam generators and one steam turbine generator for a 175MW combined power cycle plant to supply power for enhanced gas recovery through carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS); and three electric motor driven centrifugal compressors to boost feedstock gas from the offshore fields.