The Northern Lights CCS facility is ready in Norway

Norway

ØYGARDEN, September 27, 2024 – The Northern Lights carbon dioxide receiving and storage terminal, a joint venture between Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies, has been completed and is ready to receive cargoes, the companies announced on Thursday.

Located in Øygarden, Norway, the Northern Lights facilities consist of a terminal for receiving carbon dioxide, a 100-kilometre subsea pipeline for transportation and subsea injection system for safe and permanent storage of carbon dioxide in an offshore reservoir 2,600 metres below the seabed.

The first phase of the project offers a capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year (tpy) of carbon dioxide, which has already been fully booked by Norwegian and European customers, with the first injection expected in 2025. Studies are under way to expand the facility’s capacity to more than 5 million tpy in a second phase.

“The completion of the Northern Lights facility marks an important milestone for the global development of a business model for carbon capture, transport and storage. It opens a value chain for decarbonisation of European industry and energy and shows the role we and our partners take in developing low carbon solutions in the energy transition,” said Equinor CEO Anders Opedal.

Northern Lights is part of a Norwegian full-scale CCS project named Longship aimed at capturing carbon dioxide from industrial sources. Large-scale 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 whole world is looking to Norway to learn about CCS. Since construction started, we have welcomed more than 10,000 visitors from more than 50 countries,” said Tim Heijn, managing director of Northern Lights JV.

Photo courtesy Jonny Engesvoll / ©Equinor

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