SPP Pumps Supplying Fire Water Pump Package for NZT Power

UK-based manufacturer SPP Pumps will be supplying fire water pumps to NZT Power, which aims to be the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage.

The project award is for a large, engineered pump house. The system contains both diesel engine and electric motor driven FM approved split-case fire water pumps. The fire pump system will be completed with a secondary start system, fire suppression system, OH2 pressure maintenance pumps, local control and other relevant safety equipment.

Headquartered in Gloucestershire, SPP Pumps will have 50 people working directly on the contract and the project supports the growth of their robust apprenticeship programme. They currently have approximately 15 apprentices with plans to recruit an additional five over the next 12 months.

NZT Power will be capable of generating up to 742 megawatts of flexible, dispatchable low-carbon power, equivalent to the annual electricity requirements of more than one million UK homes. Up to two million tonnes of CO2 a year will be captured from NZT Power and then transported and stored by the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) infrastructure - the UK’s first CO2 transportation and storage infrastructure project.

“The NZT Power project is an important milestone for SPP,” said Tom Salmon, Group Business Development Manager. “While we have a long history of supplying pump equipment to energy, power, municipal, and other traditional sectors, the opportunity to work on a prestigious CCS project provides a strong foundation for our growth in the energy transition sector in the UK and abroad.”

Technip Energies leads a consortium with GE Vernova, alongside construction partner Balfour Beatty, to deliver the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the NZT Power and NEP onshore Power, Capture and Compression project.

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SPP Pumps is a leading manufacturer of centrifugal pumps and systems. For more than 145 years, our robust, trusted engineering has provided critical performance across diverse industry applications including oil and gas, water, power generation, construction, mining and fire protection. Our customers'​ pumping applications are invariably demanding – typically operating in hostile, arduous or extreme temperature environments, where quality matters. Using the most advanced computer testing in the world, we design, simulate, evaluate, refine and manufacture all products and packaged systems here in the UK. We also have a number of regional hubs around the globe offering the same attention to quality and values that has made SPP Pumps a market leader over 13 decades.

SPP subscribes to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals and its UK-based factory is ISO 9001 accredited.