How the CO₂ is kept in place
Our reservoirs are 140km offshore in the Southern North Sea and 9,000 feet below the seabed. That is over 2.7km, or 1.7 miles, beneath the seabed.
The depth of storage is a key part of what makes the reservoirs so secure for storing captured CO₂. Our reservoirs have what is called a superseal. This is a caprock made up primarily of layers of salt, hundreds of feet thick – a high-strength barrier through which the CO₂ cannot pass. This caprock gives us high confidence in the ability of our storage site to keep CO₂ in place.