US EditionWorld's First Commercial CO₂ Storage Starts in North Sea
Northern Lights injects up to 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 annually into a North Sea reservoir to reduce emissions from hard-to-decarbonize industries like cement and steel, officials said.
- On Monday, the Northern Lights consortium announced it carried out its inaugural CO₂ injection into the North Sea seabed, with managing director Tim Heijn saying, `Our ships, facilities and wells are now in operation`.
- As part of Norway's Longship program, the project aims to stop captured CO₂ from releasing into the atmosphere to halt climate change, with the IPCC and IEA listing CCS as a tool for industries such as cement and steel.
- Captured CO₂ is liquified and shipped to the Oygarden terminal near Bergen, then injected via a 110‑kilometre pipeline about 2.6 kilometres beneath the seabed into the Aurora reservoir; first volumes came from Heidelberg Materials cement plant in Brevik.
- Largely financed by the Norwegian state, Northern Lights joint venture has a 1.5 million tonnes annual capacity, planned to increase to 5 million tonnes by decade's end, and will operate through the rest of 2025.
- Critics note CCS remains expensive and complex, and Northern Lights has signed just three contracts with Yara ammonia plant, Ørsted biofuel plants, and Stockholm Exergi thermal power plant.
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The project has been running ink for years. But this time, it's done: the international Northern Lights consortium started its business and made a first carbon injection into the North Sea.
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