
Sharing data from Northern Lights well
The Northern Lights project will disclose datasets from the confirmation well 31/5-7 Eos drilled in the North Sea and completed earlier this year.
The Northern Lights project is part of the Norwegian full-scale CCS project. The full-scale project includes capture of CO2 from industrial capture sources in the Oslo-fjord region (cement and waste-to-energy) and shipping of liquid CO2 from these industrial capture sites to an onshore terminal on the Norwegian west coast. From there, the liquified CO2 will be transported by pipeline to an offshore storage location subsea in the North Sea, for permanent storage.
Equinor, Shell and Total have decided to invest in the Northern Lights project in Norway's first exploitation licence for CO₂ storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Plans for development and operation have been handed over to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.
Operation
The facilities are scheduled to be operational in 2024.
Storage and location
The full-scale Northern Lights project is a result of The Norwegian government’s ambition to develop a full-scale CCS value chain in Norway by 2024. As part of this ambition the government issued feasibility studies on capture, transport and storage solutions in 2016. Combined, these studies showed the feasibility of realizing a full-scale CCS project. Based on this outcome the government decided to continue the development of the preferred concepts through a study agreement covering concept and FEED (front-end engineering and design) studies. Gassnova represents the Norwegian state and acts as the coordinating body.
Gassnova represents the Norwegian state and acts as the coordinating body. The studies cover: