The first CO2 volumes have now been transported by the Northern Lights project through the 100km pipeline and injected into the Aurora reservoir 2,600m below the seabed of the Norwegian North Sea. Northern Lights will transport and store CO2 from Norway during the remainder of 2025 with CO2 volumes from Denmark and the Netherlands expected to be added in 2026. 

Northern Lights JV is a registered, incorporated General Partnership with Shared Liability owned by Equinor, TotalEnergies and Shell.

In March this year Northern Lights made the final investment decision for the expansion project which will increase transport and storage capacity from 1.5m tonnes of CO2 per year to a minimum of 5m tonnes CO2 per year, following the signing of a commercial agreement with Stockholm Exergi. The expansion is enabled by a grant from the Connecting Europe Facility for Energy funding scheme.

The expansion leverages existing infrastructure and includes additional onshore storage tanks, pumps, a new jetty, injection wells, and more CO2 transport ships to enable an increased injection rate and volume.