Total Energies, Equinor, Shell Transport First CO2 from Cement Factory to Seabed Storage

CCS Total Energies, Equinor, Shell Transport First CO2 from Cement Factory to Seabed Storage

2025-08-28 Source: Press release Total Energies 1 min Reading Time

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Total Energies, Equinor, and Shell have recently announced that they have transported by vessel the first CO2 volumes from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik, Norway to Northern Lights’ CO2 storage project in Øygarden, Norway.

Northern Lights is the world’s first merchant CO2 transportation and storage project. (Source: Pixabay) — Northern Lights is the world’s first merchant CO2 transportation and storage project.
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Paris/France – Total Energies and its partners,Equinor and Shell, have announced that the first CO2 volumes were successfully transported by vessel from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik, Norway to Northern Lights’ facilities in Øygarden. They were then injected 2,600 meters below the seabed into the storage facilities, 100 km off the coast of Western Norway.

Northern Lights is the world’s first merchant CO2 transportation and storage project. The first phase of the project has a storage capacity of 1.5 Mt CO2/year, which has been fully booked by customers from Norway and Continental Europe. Final Investment Decision of the second phase was announced in March 2025, which will increase the project capacity to more than 5 Mt CO2/year from 2028.

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The development of CO2 transport and storage services is one of the necessary levers for reducing emissions for European industry. Northern Lights has developed a strong customer base in Norway and continental Europe, with already five industrial customers: Hafslund Celsio and Heidelberg Materials in Norway, Yara in the Netherlands, Ørsted in Denmark and Stockholm Exergi in Sweden.

“With the start of operations of Northern Lights, we are entering a new phase for the CCS industry in Europe. This industry now moves to reality, offering hard-to-abate sectors a credible and tangible way to reduce CO2 emissions,” said Arnaud Le Foll, Senior Vice-President New Business - Carbon Neutrality at Total Energies.

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