Sonardyne, a Kraken Robotics company, has successfully started baseline environmental and passive seismic monitoring at the UK's first commercial-scale offshore carbon storage project.

Sonardyne has deployed six seabed lander systems at the Endurance CO2 store in the Southern North Sea. (Image credit: Sonardyne)

The start of monitoring follows the successful deployment, on behalf of the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), of six seabed lander systems at the Endurance CO2 store in the Southern North Sea, about 150 km off the coast of Teesside.

NEP is delivering CO2 transportation and storage infrastructure centered on the Endurance store, which is about 1,000 m beneath the seabed, as part of the East Coast Cluster decarbonization program across Teesside and the Humber.

The monitoring landers will support NEP’s long-term measurement, monitoring and verification (MMV) program for offshore CO2 storage by helping establish the robust, repeatable data needed to monitor the reservoir integrity effectively…