Located in Norway, Northern Lights is the world's first CO2 transport and storage project open to industry, owned equally by TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell.
How will CO2 be stored in Norway?
The full-scale project includes capture of CO 2 from industrial sources and shipping of liquid CO 2 to an onshore terminal on the Norwegian west coast. From there, the liquified CO 2 will be transported by pipeline to an offshore storage location subsea in the North Sea, for permanent storage.
Which companies are completing the Northern Lights joint-venture in Norway?
Paris, September 26, 2024 – TotalEnergies and its partners, Equinor and Shell, announce the completion of the CO2 receiving and storage facilities of Northern Lights Joint-Venture in Norway.
The Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre, officially opened the Northern Lights visitor centre in October 2022. The Northern Lights project is part of the Norwegian full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. The full-scale project will include capture of CO 2 from one or two industrial capture sources.
The Northern Lights CCS project off the coast of Norway, which will begin operation by 2024, has enough storage for the equivalent of 750,000 car emissions every year in the first phase. Equinor's Smeaheia storage site, located to the south of Northern Lights, has the potential to increase storage capacity many times over.
Is northern lights ready to receive and store CO2 from European industries?
Northern Lights is now ready to receive and permanently store CO2 from European industries, with first CO2 injection expected in 2025. Developing CO2 transportation and storage services is one of the necessary levers to reduce emissions and a realistic decarbonization solution for European industry.
This FID follows the signing of a 15-year commercial agreement between Northern Lights and Stockholm Exergi, the Swedish capital's energy supplier, for the cross-border transport and storage of 900,000 tonnes of biogenic CO 2 per year from 2028.