Northern Lights JV DA is a Norwegian joint venture established by Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies to develop and operate an open-access carbon capture and storage (CCS) transport and storage system in the North Sea. The project is part of Norway’s Longship program and is designed to receive CO₂ from industrial emitters in Norway and other European countries for permanent geological storage.
The infrastructure includes a CO₂ receiving and temporary storage terminal at Øygarden on Norway’s west coast, purpose-built ships to transport liquefied CO₂ from capture sites, and a subsea pipeline to an offshore saline aquifer located roughly 2,600 meters below the seabed. Initial capacity is around 1.5 million tonnes of CO₂ per year, with phased expansions planned to increase total capacity by several million tonnes per year. By providing cross-border CO₂ transport and storage as a service, Northern Lights supports decarbonization pathways for hard-to-abate sectors such as cement, chemicals, waste-to-energy, and low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia.