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Elemental Energies, headquartered in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, has secured a two-year contract from Harbour Energy to assess additional storage sites for the Viking carbon capture and storage development.
The company announced on 10 November that its work will cover Viking East and Viking West in the UK Southern North Sea. Engineers will combine studies of subsurface conditions, rock behaviour and well design to assess how much carbon dioxide the stores could accept and how securely they could retain it.
The assignment connects north-east Scotland’s well-engineering supply chain with proposed carbon-storage infrastructure serving industry around the Humber. Elemental did not disclose a contract value or a recruitment figure.
According to Elemental, Viking is planned to provide initial capacity of up to four million tonnes of CO₂ a year from the early 2030s. The expansion studies support future storage capacity as the wider development moves towards a final investment decision; this contract is not an announcement that that decision has been taken.
Source: Elemental Energies announcement, 10 November 2026.
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Aberdeen Harbour viewed from the Maritime Museum, 13 January 2026. Illustrative north-east location file photograph; not Viking CCS, Elemental premises or contract activity. Julian Paren / Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0. Image source · Licence. Resized and converted to WebP; derivative shared under the same licence.
