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Northern Lights Starts Commercial CO2 Storage With First Injection Under the North Sea

The launch signals a publicly backed merchant CCS service now scaling under an approved expansion.

Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies completed Europe’s first permanent CO2 injection.
Source: Northern Lights JV
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Overview

  • CO2 captured at Heidelberg Materials’ Brevik cement plant was shipped to the Øygarden terminal and injected into the Aurora reservoir about 2,600 meters beneath the seabed via a roughly 100-kilometer pipeline.
  • Phase 1 provides about 1.5 million tonnes per year of storage capacity and is fully booked, with Norwegian volumes in 2025 and shipments from Denmark and the Netherlands expected in 2026.
  • The joint venture is owned equally by Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies, with Equinor serving as Technical Service Provider responsible for construction and operations at Øygarden.
  • Norway’s Longship program finances roughly 80% of Phase 1, and the partners approved Phase 2 in March to lift capacity to at least 5 million tonnes per year with support from a €131 million CEF Energy grant and new tanks, wells, ships and a jetty.
  • Northern Lights operates as a third‑party transport‑and‑storage service with customers including Heidelberg Materials, Yara, Ørsted, Stockholm Exergi and Hafslund Celsio.