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Publication - Minutes

Lybster CO2 storage: short life working group minutes - January 2025

Published
20 August 2025
Directorate
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Topic
Energy, Environment and climate change
Date of meeting
29 January 2025
Date of next meeting
26 February 2025

Minutes from the group on 29 January 2025.

Part of

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

  • welcome/intros
  • recap of Meeting three
  • NSTA presentation on licencing rules 
  • next steps/any other business

Discussion points

  • NSTA presentation on license stewardship rules and requirements in seeking CO2 storage permission. The regulatory framework is primarily geared towards confirming capacity, containment, and integrity 
  • questions from group regarding whether O&G licence could be used for injecting small volumes of CO2 similar to an existing site in UK - NSTA confirmed this site operates on a petroleum licence, however, would likely have been offered due to the R and D nature of this site
  • storage operators will be expected to execute all work at storage/injection sites

Actions

  • determine if O and G licence be used for injecting small volumes of CO2 similar to an existing site in UK
  • determine who is liable in instances of leakage at site

Contact

Lybster CO2 storage: short life working group

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