Sonardyne has been selected by the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) – a joint venture between bp, Equinor, and TotalEnergies – to deliver baseline environmental monitoring services for the UK’s first offshore carbon capture and storage site under the North Sea. The company will deploy seabed landers at key locations above and around the subsurface Endurance site – the saline aquifer is located 145 km off the coast of Teesside where captured CO2 will be stored.
Monitoring will begin in the summer of 2026 to provide baseline data for two years before the transportation and storage of captured CO2 commences. The seabed landers will be equipped with Sonardyne’s Edge data processing application, power management and acoustic through-water communications. Each lander will also contain a suite of hardware, including Sonardyne’s Origin 600 ADCP, Wavefront’s passive sonar array and multiple third-party sensors. Together, this technology can detect small changes in water chemistry across a wide area, while the data can be harvested, without retrieving the lander, using wireless subsea acoustic communication techniques.
Stephen Auld, Business Development Manager for Custom Projects at Sonardyne, welcomed the appointment: “Being selected to deliver subsea environmental monitoring for this landmark project is a real honour and a testament to Sonardyne’s significant experience and expertise in this field. As a company who are already carbon neutral in our UK operations, we are passionate about combating climate change and the drive for carbon neutrality. We are delighted to be working with NEP in delivering cutting-edge marine technology to ensure their safe and successful offshore carbon storage operations.”
In the photo: Illustration of a seabed monitoring lander. Photo credit: Sonardyne
