Bacton Thames Net Zero
Eni UK · Hewett field, Southern North Sea · GB · Carbon capture and fuels · decarbonisation
Bacton Thames Net Zero is Eni UK's carbon capture and storage project at Hewett field, Southern North Sea, United Kingdom.
Why it matters
Nothing has been committed to it yet.
- Bacton Thames Net Zero was announced on 6 May 2026. as of 2026-05-06
- Its site is at Hewett field, Southern North Sea, United Kingdom. as of 2026-05-06
- It uses CO2 transport and storage. as of 2026-05-06
- No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2026-05-06
Where Bacton Thames Net Zero is
Bacton Thames Net Zero is at Hewett field, Southern North Sea, 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 Hewett field, Southern North Sea 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
- Announced2026-05-06
- Funded
- FID taken
- In construction
- 2026-05-06AnnouncedEni UK, own release: “Eni UK will play a pivotal role in this industry-led initiative by transporting and storing CO2 in its Hewett depleted gas field, that could be operational as early as 2027. The Hewett depleted gas field is an ideal site for permanent and safe CO2 storage with a total capacity of about 330 million tonnes.”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
- Bacton Thames Net ZeroEni UK · 2026-05-06