Slaughter and May advised Uniper on the award of two front end, engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the potential development of its new low-carbon combined cycle gas turbine power station with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, to be located at Uniper’s Connah’s Quay site. It is intended that, once complete, the new power station will connect into nearby CO2 transportation and storage infrastructure as part of the HyNet industrial cluster, enabling the CO2 captured by the power station’s CCS technology to be permanently stored in repurposed depleted offshore gas fields.
Following a competitive tender process, Uniper awarded FEED contracts to contractors Technip Energies and Worley, both of which commenced the delivery of FEED services in December 2024. The FEED phase of the project is expected to take around a year to complete and, during the FEED phase, the FEED contractors will compete to be selected as Uniper’s preferred engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor to build the power station.
Slaughter and May’s advice in respect of the FEED contracts forms part of our broader work for Uniper on the project, including ongoing advice on its EPC phase.
Slaughter and May worked closely with the Uniper in-house legal team, led by Anneena Kelay and Daniel Gething.