Located in Norway, Northern Lights is the world's first CO₂ transport and storage project open to industry, owned equally by TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell. Operational since 2024, the first phase of the project can store up to 1.5 million tonnes of CO₂ per year. From 2028, the second phase of the project will increase transport and storage capacity to 5 million tonnes of CO₂ per year.

Supporting the decarbonization of European industry

The development of CO₂ transport and storage services is one of the essential levers for reducing emissions and represents a realistic decarbonization solution for European industry. With its core competencies in large-scale project management, gas processing and geosciences, the Company is well positioned to develop industrial CO₂ storage projects, to reduce its residual emissions and support its industrial customers in decarbonizing their business.

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2022 - 2025: phase 1 of the project

With a capacity of 1.5 million tonnes of CO₂ per year, the Northern Lights CO₂ reception and storage facility, built as part of the first phase of the project, was completed in 2024.

The facilities include a terminal to receive CO₂ cargoes, a 100 km subsea pipeline to transport the CO₂ to the offshore storage site, and subsea injection facilities to ensure safe, permanent storage of the CO₂ in a reservoir 2,600 meters below the seabed.

Operations will start in the summer of 2025, with the first delivery of CO₂ by ship from the Heidelberg Materials cement plant in Brevik, Norway. The CO₂ will be injected into the reservoir, off the coast of Øygarden in western Norway, for permanent storage.

2025 - 2028: the road to phase 2

In March 2025, TotalEnergies and its partners announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the second phase of the Northern Lights development, which will raise the project's transport and storage capacity from 1.5 million to more than 5 million tonnes of CO₂ per year from 2028.The second phase, leverages existing infrastructure, both onshore and offshore. This increase in capacity includes new onshore storage tanks, pumps, a jetty, injection wells and transport vessels.

This FID follows the signing of a 15-year commercial agreement between Northern Lights and Stockholm Exergi, the Swedish capital's energy supplier, for the cross-border transport and storage of 900,000 tonnes of biogenic CO₂ per year from 2028. Stockholm Exergi is the fifth company to entrust Northern Lights with the transport and storage of its CO₂ emissions, after Heidelberg Materials and Celsio in Norway, Yara in the Netherlands and Ørsted in Denmark. Northern Lights is also in advanced discussions with several other major European industrial customers to commercialize the remaining storage capacity.

The Northern Lights project in a few dates

⁽¹⁾ Defined as key infrastructure projects to complete the European energy market in order to help the EU achieve its energy and climate policy goals.