Lybster CO2 storage: short life working group minutes February 2025

Attendees and apologies

• Crown Estate Scotland
• Health and Safety Executive
• North Sea Transition Authority
• SCCS
• Scottish Environmental Protection Authority
• Scottish Government CCUS Unit
• Star Energy
• The Carbon Removers

Items and actions

Agenda

• recap of meeting four
• Q&A with Marine Directorate on marine licencing
• NSTA overview of the 'execute' phase
• look forward to meeting six

Discussion points

• Scottish Government Marine Directorate provided a summary of the Marine Licensing Act – specifically to understand if gaps exist in legislation
• question regarding what licencing applies if there is no drilling at a site. Marine confirmed this is activity specific; marine licences are not operational permits 
• NSTA activities will focus on pre-operational stewardship – reviewing and approving progress milestones to ensure progress to first injection is on track
• NSTA still to determine what decommissioning will fully entail