The world’s first cross-border CO2 transport and storage facility, Northern Lights has been completed and is ready to receive and store CO2.
The Northern Lights facility is a joint venture between Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies.
Large scale carbon capture, transport and storage (CCS) will play a key role in the energy transition as it offers a solution for large and hard-to-abate industrial emitters that need to decarbonise their processes.
The Northern Lights project is part of the Norwegian full-scale CCS project named Longship. The full-scale project includes capture of CO2 from industrial sources and shipping of liquid CO2 to the terminal in Øygarden. From there, the liquefied CO2 will be transported by pipeline to the offshore storage location below the seabed in the North Sea, for safe and permanent storage.
The first phase capacity of 1.5 million tons of CO2 per year is fully booked, and the joint venture owners continue to work on plans to increase the transport and storage capacity for the future.
