Northern Lights facilities completed and ready to store CO2

Sunday, September 29 2024

General – CO2 Norway

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 facilities include a terminal that will receive CO2 cargos, a 100 km subsea pipeline for CO2 transportation to the offshore storage location, and subsea injection facilities for safe and permanent CO2 storage in a reservoir 2,600 meters below the seabed.

Northern Lights is now ready to receive and permanently store CO2 from European industries, with the first CO2 injection expected in 2025. Developing CO2 transportation and storage services is one of the necessary levers to reduce emissions and provide a realistic decarbonization solution for the European industry.

Northern Lights is the world’s first commercial CO2 transportation and storage project. The Norwegian government supported the first phase of the project and has a capacity of 1.5 Mt CO2/year, which customers in Norway and Continental Europe have fully booked. Studies are underway for a capacity expansion to more than 5 Mt CO2/y in a second phase.