Eni CCUS Holding: installation of Douglas CCS, world's first offshore purpose-built platform

Eni CCUS Holding, owned jointly by Eni and Global Infrastructure Partners, part of BlackRock, announces that Liverpool Bay CCS has completed the installation of the new Douglas CCS platform in Liverpool Bay, on 8 October 2026. The platform was delivered in less than 18 months from contract award following an accelerated programme integrating engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning.

The new Douglas CCS is the first purpose-built offshore platform dedicated to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for industrial decarbonisation in the world. Indeed, Northern Lights, in Norway, and Greensand, in Denmark, the two other CCS infrastructures operating in the North Sea are both repurposed oil & gas platforms.

Designed to operate as the offshore hub of the Liverpool Bay T&S system…