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FEATURE CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE

Offshore drilling operations in 2022 at the EL001 stor- the transport and storage component of Longship, the age license (granted in January 2019) confrmed the stor- Norwegian Government’s full-scale carbon capture and age capacity of at least 5 million tonnes CO2 per year. storage project.

The wells were been drilled using Transocean's semi- Apart from this, in August 2022, the Northern Lights submersible drilling rig Transocean Enabler. joint venture struck its frst commercial deal. The agree-

Worth noting, the European Commission in January ment was signed with fertilizer maker Yara, to store CO2 2022 announced that EU countries had agreed to award captured at Yara’s Dutch operation. Under the agreement,

Northern Lights €4 million for Front-End Engineering 800,000 tonnes of CO2 per year will be transported on

Design (FEED) studies for the expansion of the Northern ships from Yara in the Netherlands from early 2025.

Lights CO2 transport and storage capacity to over 5 mil- Announcing the Yara deal, Shell’s then CEO Ben van lion tonnes per year. Beurden said, “We are proving that this actually works.

The planned expansion will include subsea facilities The fact that it can is a major breakthrough because this is and capacity increase of the onshore receiving terminal now a pathfnder project for similar projects in Europe." in Øygarden. Another vote of confdence for the project came in May, 2023 when the Northern Lights joint venture signed a deal

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

As part of the frst phase of the project, 80% funded by genic CO2 emissions per year from Orsted’s two power the Norwegian government, Northern Lights has reserved plants in Denmark.

800,000 tonnes of CO2 per year for the Heidelberg Ma- Børre Jacobsen, Managing Director of Northern Lights, terials cement factory in Brevik and the Hafslund Oslo then said, “This agreement confrms the commercial po-

Celsio waste-to-energy plant, to fulfll its obligations as tential for CCS and demonstrates that the market for

Illustration of the Northern Lights 7,500 m3 CO2 ships.

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