TotalEnergies and its partners Equinor and Shell announced on August 25, 2025, that the first CO2 volumes were successfully transported by vessel from Heidelberg Materials' cement factory in Brevik, Norway, to Northern Lights' facilities in Øygarden. The CO2 was then injected 2,600 meters below the seabed into storage facilities located 100 kilometers off the coast of Western Norway.

Project Specifications and Capacity

Northern Lights operates as the world's first merchant CO2 transportation and storage project. The first phase of the project has a storage capacity of 1.5 million tons of CO2 per year, which customers from Norway and Continental Europe have fully booked. The project announced its Final Investment Decision for the second phase in March 2025, which will increase the project capacity to more than 5 million tons of CO2 per year from 2028.

The storage reservoir is positioned 2,600 meters under the seabed.

Customer Base and Operations

Northern Lights has established a customer base across five industrial clients spanning multiple countries. In Norway, the project serves Hafslund Celsio and Heidelberg Materials. International customers include Yara in the Netherlands, Ørsted in Denmark, and Stockholm Exergi in Sweden. The company operates by transporting liquefied CO2 from capture sites to an onshore receiving terminal in western Norway, before transporting it by pipeline for permanent storage in the underwater reservoir. Northern Lights is owned in equal shares by TotalEnergies, Equinor, and Shell.

Industry Impact and Technology Development

Arnaud Le Foll, Senior Vice-President New Business - Carbon Neutrality at TotalEnergies, stated that “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.”

Northern Lights draws on experience from over 25 years of CO2 storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and positions itself at the forefront of developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. The project represents the world's first cross-border CO2 transport and storage infrastructure, delivering CO2 transport and storage as a service to enable the mitigation of industrial emissions that cannot be avoided.

TotalEnergies' Carbon Storage Portfolio

TotalEnergies' approach focuses first on avoiding emissions and then reducing them by developing and deploying a systematic approach, asset-by-asset, to implement the best available technologies. For residual emissions and customer emissions, the company develops industrial projects for carbon storage. The company leverages core competencies in large-scale project management, gas processing, and geosciences to enable the decarbonization of European businesses.

Beyond Northern Lights in Norway, TotalEnergies' carbon storage project portfolio includes NEP in the United Kingdom, Bayou-Bend in the United States, Aramis in the Netherlands, and Bifrost in Denmark. TotalEnergies operates as a global integrated energy company that produces and markets oil and biofuels, natural gas, biogas, and low-carbon hydrogen, renewables, and electricity. The company employs more than 100,000 people and operates in approximately 120 countries, placing sustainability at the heart of its strategy, projects, and operations.

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