Two hundred engineers employed by consulting and engineering company Wood have delivered the front-end engineering and design (FEED) scope for the first phase of Aramco’s Accelerated Carbon Capture and Sequestration (ACCS) project in Saudi Arabia.

Once complete, the ACCS project is expected to be the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) hub.

The goal of the first project phase is to capture carbon emissions from Aramco gas plant facilities near Jubail, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia, as well as from third-party emitters.

To date, engineers from Wood have already designed the greenfield dehydration and compression facilities and a large pipeline network, which includes a 200+ kilometre dense-phase CO₂ pipeline.

By 2027, the pipeline will transport 9 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of emissions and sequester it within onshore geological storage. Aramco’s plan is to increase this figure to 14 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of CO₂ equivalent by 2035. In that case, Saudi will have reached its 44 MTPA Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) goal for 2035.