Northern Lights is the world’s first cross-border CO2 transport and storage facility. In August 2025, the first CO2 volumes were injected and successfully stored in the reservoir. Carbon capture and storage will play a major role in the Norwegian climate solution.
In August 2025, the first CO₂ volumes were injected and successfully stored in the reservoir. The world’s first third party CO2 transport and storage facility is now in operation, contributing to reducing European greenhouse gas emissions.
In March 2025, the owners of Northen Lights announce a phase two of the groundbreaking CCS-project. NOK 7.5 billion will be invested to increase the total injection capacity from 1.5 to a minimum of 5 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies are investing in the Northern Lights project — Norway’s first licence for CO₂ storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and a major part of the initiative that the Norwegian government calls Longship. Carbon capture and storage will play a major role in the Norwegian climate solution.
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The Northern Lights CCS project off the coast of Norway has enough storage for the equivalent of 750,000 car emissions every year in the first phase. Equinor’s Smeaheia storage site, located to the south of Northern Lights, has the potential to increase storage capacity many times over.
In 2022, Northern Lights secured the world’s first commercial agreement on cross border CO2 transport and storage with fertilizer company Yara International. This was a milestone for the decarbonization of European heavy industry, opening for cross border CO2 transport and storage as a service.
Equinor is already one of the largest CCS operators worldwide. We have ambitions to develop further storage licenses in the North Sea with the aim to build a common, pipeline-based infrastructure that can contribute to substantial cost reductions for CCS value chains.
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The 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 confirmed the feasibility of realising a full-scale CCS project, and 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: