TotalEnergies and its partners Equinor and Shell, have announced a Final Investment Decision (FID) of the second phase of the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Norway, which will increase the project transport and storage capacity from 1.5 MtCO2/year to more than 5 MtCO2/year from 2028. The second phase represents an investment of NOK7.5bn (€662m) and leverages existing onshore and offshore infrastructures. This expansion includes new onshore storage tanks, pumps, a jetty, injection wells and transport vessels - which are all expected to be completed for a start-up by the second half of 2028.
The FID for the second phase follows the signing of a 15-year commercial agreement between Northern Lights and the Swedish district energy provider Stockholm Exergi for the cross-border transport and storage of 900 kt/year of biogenic CO2, starting in 2028.
The first phase of Northern Lights is completed and ready to receive CO2 from industrial emitters. Operations are expected to start in summer 2025, with the first CO2 transportation by ship from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik, Norway. On top of Exergi and Heidelberg Materials, three other major industrial companies have committed for CO2 emissions transport and storage, namely Celsio in Norway, Yara in the Netherlands and Ørsted in Denmark.