Kent has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for a carbon dioxide storage development in Greece, marking progress on what is expected to become the Mediterranean region’s first dedicated CO2 storage project.
The contract was issued by EnEarth, a subsidiary of the UK-based energy company Energean, which is leading the development of the Prinos CO2 storage project in northern Greece.
Located near the city of Kavala, the project is designed to create a full carbon transport and storage chain capable of handling emissions from industrial facilities across the region.
Plans envision shipping liquefied CO2 from remote emitters to a new marine terminal at the onshore Sigma facility. From there, the gas would be temporarily stored before being conditioned and transported through a subsea pipeline to an offshore injection platform.
Once operational, the site is expected to reach an annual injection capacity of up to 2.8 million metric tons of CO2 by 2029. The captured emissions would be injected into the Prinos aquifer beneath an existing hydrocarbon reservoir.
Converting an oil field into a storage hub
The Prinos development is centered on repurposing infrastructure from Greece’s only producing oil and gas field, discovered in 1974 and brought into production in 1981. Project developers aim to transform the area into a long-term carbon storage site capable of supporting regional decarbonization efforts.
Kent’s FEED work will define the engineering scope and execution plan for the CO2 handling and storage facilities, including systems for receiving, conditioning and transporting the captured gas to the offshore injection site.
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The project is scheduled to be implemented in two phases. The initial phase focuses on adapting existing infrastructure to enable injection of roughly 1 million tons of CO2 per year, with operations expected to begin later this decade.
A second phase would expand capacity to approximately 2.8 million tons annually, supporting storage operations for around 20 years.
The Prinos project has been included in the European Union’s list of Projects of Common Interest and forms part of a broader Mediterranean carbon capture and storage strategy involving Greece, France and Italy aimed at establishing a regional CO2 storage network.
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