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Norway's Northern Lights CCS project starts operations with first CO2 injected
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on August 25, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on August 25, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Norway's Northern Lights CCS project starts CO2 injection, marking a milestone in carbon capture. The project aims to store 1.5 million tons annually.
By Nora Buli
OSLO (Reuters) -The first volumes of carbon dioxide (CO2) have been injected and stored as part of Norway's Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, marking the start of operations, owners Shell, Equinor and TotalEnergies said on Monday.
The CO2 is being stored in a reservoir 2,600 meters (8,530 ft) below the seabed, marking a major milestone for CCS, the companies said.
"This demonstrates the viability of carbon capture, transport and storage as a scalable industry," Anders Opedal, CEO of Equinor, said in a statement.
The facility is part of Norway's heavily subsidised Longship carbon capture and storage project aimed at commercialising CCS as a way to reduce CO2 emissions, especially for sectors that rely on fossil fuel input and are hard to decarbonise.
The CO2 now stored was shipped from the Brevik cement factory operated by Heidelberg Materials in southern Norway, and first offloaded into onshore tanks, before being sent through a 100-kilometer (62 miles) pipeline to the storage reservoir.
The commenced injection completes phase 1 of the Northern Lights development, which can inject 37.5 million metric tons of CO2 over a 25-year period, or 1.5 million tons per year, and is fully booked.
The partners also committed to invest 7.5 billion crowns ($743.93 million) into a second phase, which targets an additional 3.5 million tons a year.
($1 = 10.0816 Norwegian crowns)
(Reporting by Nora Buli, editing by Gwladys Fouché)
The Northern Lights CCS project is a carbon capture and storage initiative in Norway that aims to inject and store carbon dioxide (CO2) in a reservoir 2,600 meters below the seabed.
The project can inject 37.5 million metric tons of CO2 over a 25-year period, which equates to 1.5 million tons per year.
The project involves several partners, including Equinor and Heidelberg Materials, who are committed to investing in its development and future phases.
The commencement of CO2 injection marks a major milestone for carbon capture and storage, demonstrating its viability as a scalable industry.
The partners have committed to invest 7.5 billion crowns into a second phase, which aims to increase the injection capacity by an additional 3.5 million tons per year.
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