Northern Lights begins operations as TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell deliver Europe’s first CO₂ transport and storage service

Northern Lights begins operations as TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell deliver Europe’s first CO₂ transport and storage service

(IN BRIEF) TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell have officially started operations at Northern Lights, the world’s first merchant CO₂ transport and storage project. The first volumes of CO₂ were shipped from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik to the Øygarden terminal and injected into a reservoir 2,600 meters under the seabed. Phase 1, with 1.5 million tonnes of annual capacity, is fully booked, while Phase 2 will expand capacity to more than 5 million tonnes per year by 2028. Northern Lights already has five industrial customers in Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. According to TotalEnergies’ Arnaud Le Foll, the project marks the point where CCS in Europe becomes an operational industry, offering hard-to-abate sectors a practical route to decarbonization.

(PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 25-Aug-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — TotalEnergies and its partners Equinor and Shell have announced the successful start of operations at Northern Lights, the world’s first open-access, commercial CO₂ transport and storage project. The first shipment of liquefied CO₂ was transported by vessel from Heidelberg Materials’ cement plant in Brevik, Norway, to the receiving facilities at Øygarden, before being injected 2,600 meters beneath the seabed into a permanent storage reservoir located 100 kilometers off Norway’s western coast.

With this milestone, Europe now has its first cross-border CO₂ transport and storage service in operation. Phase 1 of Northern Lights has a capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year, which is fully contracted by industrial emitters from Norway and continental Europe. The joint venture reached Final Investment Decision in March 2025 for Phase 2, which will increase capacity to more than 5 million tonnes annually starting in 2028.

Northern Lights provides a crucial pathway for hard-to-abate industries to address residual emissions that cannot be eliminated through efficiency measures or renewable energy alone. The project has already established a strong customer base with five major companies: Hafslund Celsio and Heidelberg Materials in Norway, Yara in the Netherlands, Ørsted in Denmark, and Stockholm Exergi in Sweden.

“With Northern Lights in operation, carbon capture and storage is no longer just a concept but a real, scalable industry in Europe,” said Arnaud Le Foll, Senior Vice-President New Business – Carbon Neutrality at TotalEnergies. “This facility gives industrial sectors a concrete solution to cut their emissions and strengthens the foundation for Europe’s long-term climate strategy.”

Building on more than 25 years of Norwegian expertise in CO₂ storage, Northern Lights is designed as a flexible, merchant service that can be used by customers across borders. Liquefied CO₂ will be transported by ship to Øygarden, then moved through pipelines to offshore storage reservoirs for permanent sequestration.

The start of operations represents a pivotal step in Europe’s decarbonization journey, positioning Northern Lights as a model for future large-scale CCS value chains.

About Northern Lights

Northern Lights, owned in equal shares by TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell, is developing the world’s first cross-border CO2 transport and storage infrastructure. Delivering CO2 transport and storage as a service, Northern Lights enables mitigation of industrial emissions that cannot be avoided and accelerates the decarbonization of European industry. Drawing on experience from over 25 years of CO2 storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Northern Lights is at the forefront of developing CCS technologies. The company will transport liquefied CO2 from capture sites to an onshore receiving terminal in western Norway, before transporting it by pipeline for permanent storage in a reservoir 2,600 meters under the seabed. CCS is a necessary climate solution to decarbonize industry and reduce or remove industrial CO2 emissions. www.norlights.com

About TotalEnergies and Carbon Capture and Storage

TotalEnergies’ focus is first to avoid emissions and then to reduce them by developing and deploying a systematic approach, asset-by-asset, to implement the best available technologies. For its residual emissions and the emissions of its customers, the Company is developing industrial projects for carbon storage. Backed by core competencies in large-scale project management, gas processing and geosciences, TotalEnergies is on track to enable significant decarbonization of European businesses through projects such as Northern Lights in Norway, NEP in the United Kingdom, Bayou-Bend in the US, Aramis in the Netherlands and Bifrost in Denmark.

About TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies is a global integrated energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas, biogas and low-carbon hydrogen, renewables and electricity. Our more than 100,000 employees are committed to provide as many people as possible with energy that is more reliable, more affordable and more sustainable. Active in about 120 countries, TotalEnergies places sustainability at the heart of its strategy, its projects and its operations.

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