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In December, Northern Lights received the first 7 of 12 onshore tanks for intermediate CO2 storage; a little earlier, on November 10, well drilling operations were concluded and the official steel cutting ceremony launching the construction of the future ships took place on November 21 at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd, in China. Where do we stand regarding this project? Let's have a look back over it!

But first, what is Northern Lights? In Norway, the Company, together with Equinor and Shell, launched Northern Lights, the first large-scale carbon transport and storage project. Approved by the Norwegian government in 2020, the project is currently in the construction phase. It will allow industrial emitters in Norway and elsewhere in Europe to store their emissions.

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Outside of Northern Lights, in the CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) field, the Company:
is working with its partners on the Northern Endurance Partnership transport and storage project, which aims to decarbonize the Teesside and Humberside industrial regions.
In the United Kingdom, the Company is working with its partners on the Northern Endurance Partnership transport and storage project, which aims to decarbonize the Teesside and Humberside industrial regions.
The 2021 budget for the entire CCS system was $100 million and TotalEnergies is now aiming to expanding storage capacity of about 10 Mt CO2/year by 2030.

The Company has also applied to the Danish Energy Agency for a license to explore CO2 storage potential in the Danish North Sea.

MORE ABOUT Northern Lights

Northern Lights Who we are

Northern Lights delivers carbon storage as a service. Our aim is to enable the decarbonisation of industrial emissions and to facilitate the removal of CO2 from the air.

We are the transport and storage component of Norway's Longship project, which includes capture of CO2 from industrial point sources in the Oslo region. Northern Lights ships the CO2 to an onshore terminal on the Norwegian west coast and, from there, transports the liquefied CO2 by pipeline to a subsea storage location in the North Sea. It will also offer companies across Europe the opportunity to store their CO2 safely and permanently deep under the seabed in Norway.

When Northern Lights starts operations in 2024, it will be the first ever cross-border, open-source CO2 transport and storage infrastructure network.

Northern Lights What we do

Northern Lights enables the mitigation of industrial process emissions for which there is currently no scalable solution, accelerates the decarbonisation of European industry, and facilitates the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.

Accelerating decarbonisation
We are developing an open and flexible infrastructure to transport CO2 from capture sites by ship to a terminal in western Norway for intermediate storage, before being transported by pipeline for permanent storage in a reservoir 2,600 metres under the seabed.

Our transport and storage facilities will offer safe and permanent underground storage to industries from across Europe.

The project is the transport and storage component of Longship, the Norwegian Government's full-scale carbon capture and storage project Northern Lights will be the first ever cross-border, open-source CO2 transport and storage infrastructure network. Phase one of the project will be completed in 2024 with a capacity of up to 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year.

Once the CO2 is captured onshore, it will be transported by newly designed ships, injected and permanently stored 2,600 metres below the seabed of the North Sea.
The CO2 receiving terminal will be located at the premises of Naturgassparken industrial area in the municipality of Øygarden in western Norway.
The CO2 storage complex has been named Aurora and is part of Exploitation Licence EL001 which was awarded in January 2019.

In March 2020, the Eos confirmation well was successfully drilled and completed, confirming the reservoir characteristics and storage capacity.
The Northern Lights JV was launched in March 2021.
Our ambition is to expand capacity by an additional 3.5 million tonnes to a total of 5 million tonnes, dependent on market demand. However, the receiving terminal, offshore pipeline, and the umbilical to the offshore template will be built to accommodate the additional volumes.

Both phases will offer flexibility to receive CO2 from European sources, in addition to the 800,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, which will come from Longship, assuming both of the initial Norwegian capture projects are realised.