Joseph Gallagher Ltd (JGL) has been awarded a £50m contract to provide trenchless construction for the HyNet North West carbon capture project.
JGL will design and construct 53 trenchless crossings across a 35km pipeline route from North Wales to north-west England.
The Liverpool Bay CCS Ltd project is designed to transform the region’s energy landscape. It includes low-carbon hydrogen production combined with CO2 capture; creation of a hydrogen distribution network; development of underground hydrogen storage in salt caverns; facilities to capture CO2 emissions from new and existing industries; and safe CO2 transportation and permanent storage in Liverpool Bay.The new pipeline will start in Ince, Cheshire, and finish in Point of Ayr, North Wales and will integrate with 24km of existing pipeline.
JGL will install the new pipeline under critical infrastructure and natural features including 34 roads, four railways, eight major oil and gas pipelines, two rivers, one canal, one brook, one woodland and two tow paths.
The company will install 24 shafts to facilitate TBM crossings, alongside two 1200mm TBM drives of more than 100m long.
In addition, it will deliver 12 1500mm TBM drives, spanning lengths of 55-260m. The project also includes a 508mm diameter horizontal directional drilling crossing and a 915mm diameter crossing beneath the River Dee.
Further installations will comprise two 508mm diameter auger crossings and thirty-seven 915mm diameter crossings.
JGL said it was “immensely proud to be delivering such a vital component of the HyNet North West vision, helping to create a cleaner, more sustainable energy future for generations to come”.
The company was awarded the contract by United Living Energy Ltd, one of Liverpool Bay CCS Ltd’s primary contractors for the £250m project.
