Equinor has been developing groundbreaking CCS solutions since 1996, including Sleipner, Snøhvit, Technology Centre Mongstad, Northern Lights, Northern Endurance Partnership and now Smeaheia.
We are the pioneers of industrial CCS with over 25 years of operational experience across several projects in the North Sea region. Building on what we learned from our Sleipner and Snøhvit CCS sites, Equinor is developing more international collaborative projects like Northern Lights and CO₂ highway Europe in Norway and the Northern Endurance Partnership off the coast of the United Kingdom.
Equinor has ambitions to develop further storage licences in the North Sea in the coming years with the aim of building a common, pipeline-based infrastructure that can contribute to substantial cost reductions for the CCS value chains.
Safe capture and storage of CO2 is a prerequisite and enabler for developing blue hydrogen and ammonia from natural gas. With CCS, blue hydrogen and ammonia can more or less eliminate emissions from the use of natural gas, thus ensuring access to large amounts of low-carbon and reliable energy. With the use of CCS, emissions can also be significantly reduced from gas-fired power plants.