SectorsCarbon capture and fuelsAcorn

Acorn

Storegga, Shell, Harbour Energy, North Sea Midstream Partners · St Fergus · GB · Carbon capture and fuels · decarbonisation

Announced

Acorn is Storegga, Shell, Harbour Energy, North Sea Midstream Partners' carbon capture and storage project at St Fergus, United Kingdom.

Why it matters

Nothing has been committed to it yet.

  • Acorn was announced by 15 September 2026. as of by 2026-09-15
  • Its site is at St Fergus, United Kingdom. as of by 2026-09-15
  • It uses CO2 transport and storage. as of by 2026-09-15
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of by 2026-09-15

Where Acorn is

Acorn is at St Fergus, United Kingdom, and this register holds no position for it. The company has confirmed the site and no citable source places the works: it is being built where nobody has yet drawn it. The row is held anyway — position is not a condition of being on file — and what was searched, and what was found instead, is below.

NO POSITION SOUGHT BY THIS PASS. Brief 8 forbids geocoding in a census — a municipality is not a point — and the source that admits this row names St Fergus and not a position. Transport and storage is the sector where that bites hardest: a pipeline is a route rather than a place, and a store is a reservoir whose position its operator rarely publishes. The row is admitted without one, on the rule that position is not an admission leg.

Status

  1. Announcedby 2026-09-15
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating
  • by 2026-09-15AnnouncedThe Acorn Project (Storegga, Shell, Harbour, North Sea Midstream), own site: “Scotland's CO2 transport and storage network. Delivering carbon storage infrastructure to support economic growth, jobs and the UK's energy transition.”source

Technology and measures

  • CO2 transport and storageearly-commercialThe pipelines, ships, terminals and permitted geological stores that a captured tonne has to reach before it counts as abated, and which no single site that captures can build for itself.

Funding

No public capital recorded for this project.

Sources

  • AcornThe Acorn Project (Storegga · by 2026-09-15