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Baseline environmental and seismic monitoring has begun at the Endurance carbon store following the deployment of six seabed systems, Sonardyne announced on 10 November.
The installation for Northern Endurance Partnership comprises three Sonardyne environmental monitoring landers alongside three TIAMAT passive seismic systems supplied by K.U.M. They are positioned in the Southern North Sea, about 150 kilometres off Teesside.
The equipment is gathering measurements of seawater chemistry, currents, seabed conditions and seismic activity ahead of future carbon dioxide injection. These observations will establish a reference against which later measurements can be compared; the announcement does not report that injection has started.
Endurance forms part of the East Coast Cluster’s planned transport and storage infrastructure for industrial emissions from Teesside and the Humber. Sonardyne says the monitoring equipment will support the partnership’s long-term programme for checking storage integrity.
The company will also manage ongoing operation and data retrieval. Its announcement describes landers designed for extended seabed deployment, using underwater communications so measurements can be recovered without regularly lifting the equipment.
Source: Sonardyne deployment announcement, 10 November 2026.
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Container terminal at Teesport, viewed across the mouth of Tees Dock, 18 August 2009. Illustrative Teesside industrial-location file photograph; not Endurance, the landers or their deployment. Mick Garratt / Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0. Image source · Licence. Original photograph retained without upscaling.
