Northern Lights: World’s first cross-border CO2 transport and storage facility is formally open

Northern Lights CO2 transport and storage facility, a three way partnership (JV) of vitality majors Shell, Equinor, and TotalEnergies, has been accomplished, marking “an essential milestone for the worldwide growth of a enterprise mannequin for carbon seize, transport, and storage”.

The official opening ceremony of the CO2 transport and storage facility in Øygarden, close to Bergen, was carried out by the Norwegian Minister of Power on September 26, signaling that the power is able to obtain and retailer CO2.

“The completion of the Northern Lights facility marks an essential milestone for the worldwide growth of a enterprise mannequin for carbon seize, transport and storage. It opens a price chain for decarbonisation of European trade and vitality and exhibits the position we and our companions soak up growing low carbon options within the vitality transition,” says CEO of Equinor, Anders Opedal.

“This undertaking demonstrates what might be achieved when authorities and trade are working in the direction of the identical aim and co-invest to cut back dangers. Equinor has a number of CO₂ transport and storage developments in our portfolio as operator and associate. The established Northern Lights worth chain and expertise from the undertaking will likely be priceless in maturing and scaling up future CCS tasks.”

The Northern Lights undertaking is a part of Norway’s efforts to develop a full-scale carbon seize and storage (CCS) worth chain named Longship. It contains the event of a receiving terminal, underwater infrastructure (together with the pipeline, subs installations, and wells), intermediate storage tanks, and onshore amenities.

A binding business settlement was additionally signed with Yara Worldwide to pave the best way for the world’s first cross-border transportation and storage of CO2.

The complete-scale undertaking contains seize of CO2 from industrial sources and delivery of liquid CO2 to the terminal in Øygarden with LNG-powered CO2 carriers. From there, the liquified CO2 will likely be transported by pipeline to the offshore storage location under the seabed within the North Sea, for everlasting storage.

Part 1 with a capability to inject up 1.5 million tons of CO2 per 12 months is absolutely booked, and the three way partnership companions plan to extend the transport and storage capability for the longer term.

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