The first CO₂ volumes have now been transported through the 100-kilometre pipeline and injected into the Aurora reservoir 2,600 meters below the seabed of the Norwegian North Sea.
Tim Heijn, managing director of Northern Lights JV, says: ‘We have reached an exciting milestone: We now injected and stored the very first CO₂ safely in the reservoir. Our ships, facilities and wells are now in operation.’
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 (DA) 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 1.5 million tonnes CO₂ per year to a minimum of 5 million 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 (CEF 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.
