Investing NOK 7.5 billion in expansion of the groundbreaking Northern Lights CCS-project
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The Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage facilities at Øygarden outside of Bergen
Photo: Torstein Lund Eik / Equinor
Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies have made a final investment decision (FID) to progress phase two of the Northern Lights development. The decision was made after signing a commercial agreement with Stockholm Exergi to transport and store up to 900.000 tonnes of biogenic CO2 annually for 15 years.
About Northern Lights
- Northern Lights JV is a registered, incorporated General Partnership with Shared Liability (DA), equally owned by Equinor, TotalEnergies and Shell.
- Longship is a comprehensive CCS project initiated by the Norwegian government, designed to demonstrate large-scale CO2 capture, transport, and storage. Northern Lights, a key component of the project, focuses on the transport and storage aspects. Captured and liquefied CO2 from customer’s sites is transported by ship to the onshore receiving terminal at Øygarden.
- From the terminal, CO2 is transported via pipeline to a storage in a reservoir 2,600 meters under the seabed in the North Sea.
- The Norwegian government is providing substantial financial support, covering approximately 80% of the cost for the Phase 1 of the Northern Lights project.
- The phase two expansion of Northern Lights received €131 million from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) in June 2024. It is one of four CO2 transport and storage projects funded by the CEF and is vital for developing a Europe-wide carbon value chain by the end of the decade
- The Northern Lights facility includes a receiving terminal, an injection pipeline and subsea installations.
- Equinor as the Technical Service Provider (TSP has led the construction of the onshore plant at Øygarden and the offshore facilities on behalf of Northern Lights JV and its partners.