Kent leads Greece’s Prinos CO₂ storage
Kent has been appointed to design Greece’s first large-scale CO₂ storage facility.
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Greece: Kent, an engineering and project delivery firm, has been selected by EnEarth to perform the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for the Prinos CO₂ Storage Project in Northern Greece. The project will safely receive, process, and permanently store CO₂ emissions, helping Greece and the EU meet climate and decarbonisation goals.
The FEED phase will define the technical scope and execution strategy, ensuring the highest standards of safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Kent will develop the front-end design for a facility that will receive CO₂ by marine carriers, temporarily store it at the onshore Sigma plant near Kavala, condition and pump it through a new subsea pipeline to a dedicated CO₂ Injection and Water Production (COIWP) platform within the existing Prinos complex.
The Prinos project is notable as the first in the Mediterranean to receive both an environmental permit and a CO₂ storage permit. It is included in the EU’s Projects of Common Interest (PCIs) and has secured funding from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) and Greece’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The facility is designed to handle up to 2.8 million tonnes of CO₂ per year by 2029.
Paul Wetton, Kent’s VP of UK Engineering Services, said: “Prinos represents one of Europe’s most strategically important carbon storage developments, and this FEED award marks a meaningful step toward enabling large-scale industrial decarbonisation in Greece and across the EU.”
Ioannis Politis, Group Head of Contracts & Procurement at Energean, said: “This award demonstrates our commitment to advancing carbon storage as a cornerstone of the transition to a more sustainable planet.”
Source: Kent
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