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.
chemXplore tracks 1 project involving Northern Lights.
Northern Lights's role on them: Operator.
First complete cross-border CCS value chain; captures 800,000 tCO₂/yr from ammonia, shipped to Norway for permanent seabed storage, ~12 Mt over 15 years.
Phase 2 will see the installation of fully electric marine loading arms, enhancing capacity to handle over 5 million tonnes of CO2 annually by 2028, setting a new industry standard.
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