Construction of the world’s first cross-border CO₂ transport and storage facility has been completed and is now ready to receive and store CO₂.

The Norwegian Minister of Energy conducted the official opening of the Northern Lights CO₂ transport and storage facility in Øygarden, near Bergen.

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 a solution for large and hard-to-abate industrial emitters that need to decarbonize 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 liquified 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.

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