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CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE

Northern Lights JV to have their CO2 offtaken by lique? ed

Clients

CO2 carriers, shipped to the onshore plant in Øygarden for an

As part of the ? rst phase of the project, 80% funded by intermediate storage, and then transported by a 110 km pipe- the Norwegian government, Northern Lights has reserved line to an offshore subsea storage. 800,000 tonnes of CO2 per year for the Heidelberg Materi-

While the initial storage capacity is 1.5 million tonnes of als cement factory in Brevik and the Hafslund Oslo Celsio

CO2 per year, plans are in place to increase capacity as de- waste-to-energy plant, to ful? ll its obligations as the transport mand grows across Europe. and storage component of Longship, the Norwegian Govern-

In 2020, Northern Lights drilled the ? rst CO2 exploration ment’s full-scale carbon capture and storage project.

well that con? rmed that the reservoir in the Johansen forma-

Apart from this, in August 2022, the Northern Lights joint tion, at 2.600 meters depth, is suitable for safe and permanent venture struck its ? rst commercial deal. The agreement was

CO2 storage.

signed with fertilizer maker Yara, to store CO2 captured at

Offshore drilling operations in 2022 at the EL001 storage Yara’s Dutch operation. Under the agreement, 800,000 tonnes license (granted in January 2019) con? rmed the storage ca- of CO2 per year will be transported on ships from Yara in the pacity of at least 5 million tonnes CO2 per year.

Netherlands from early 2025.

The wells were been drilled using Transocean's semi-sub-

Announcing the Yara deal, Shell’s then CEO Ben van Beur- mersible drilling rig Transocean Enabler.

den said, “We are proving that this actually works. The fact

Worth noting, the European Commission in January 2022 that it can is a major breakthrough because this is now a path- announced that EU countries had agreed to award Northern ? nder project for similar projects in Europe."

Lights €4 million for Front-End Engineering Design (FEED)

Another vote of con? dence for the project came in May, studies for the expansion of the Northern Lights CO2 trans- 2023 when the Northern Lights joint venture signed a deal port and storage capacity to over 5 million tonnes per year.

with Orsted to transport and store 430,000 tonnes of biogen-

The planned expansion will include subsea facilities and ca- ic CO2 emissions per year from Orsted’s two power plants pacity increase of the onshore receiving terminal in Øygarden.

in Denmark.

Northern Lights will transport 800,000 tonnes of CO2 per year on ships from Yara in the Netherlands from early 2025, and store it under the seabed in Norway.

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