Kent secures FEED contract for Mediterranean's first permitted CO₂ storage project

Kent has been awarded the front-end engineering design contract for EnEarth's Prinos CO₂ storage project in northern Greece. The facility, designed to inject up to 2.8 million tonnes annually, is the first in the Mediterranean to receive environmental and storage permits and holds EU Project of Common Interest status.

Kent has been selected by EnEarth to perform front-end engineering design for the Prinos CO₂ storage project offshore northern Greece, according to an official announcement. The FEED phase will define technical scope and execution strategy for the facility, which aims to receive, temporarily store, and permanently inject CO₂ into the Prinos aquifer beneath an existing reservoir.

EnEarth is a subsidiary of Energean, an independent exploration and production company focused on natural gas and energy infrastructure in the Mediterranean. Kent is a global engineering firm providing project delivery services across energy and industrial sectors. The Prinos project represents the first CO₂ storage development in the Mediterranean to receive both environmental and storage permits, and is included in the EU's Projects of Common Interest list. It has secured funding from the Connecting Europe Facility and Greece's Recovery and Resilience Facility.

The facility is designed to process up to 2.8 million tonnes of liquid CO₂ annually by 2029, transported by marine carriers from industrial emitters to a new terminal near Kavala, then injected via subsea pipeline from a dedicated platform. This development matters for the European carbon capture and storage sector, where first-mover projects establish regulatory and technical precedents for future developments.

The Mediterranean region, with concentrated industrial emissions and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, presents significant storage potential for hard-to-abate sectors including cement, steel, and chemicals. For engineering and construction firms, the award signals progression of CCS projects from concept to execution phase in Southern Europe. Stakeholders including industrial CO₂ emitters, shipping companies, and EU climate policymakers will monitor Prinos as a template for cross-border carbon transport and storage networks. The project's PCI status facilitates regulatory coordination and potential funding access for subsequent development phases.