What we do

Northern Lights offers CO₂ transport and storage as a service. Our mission is to enable the reduction and removal of industrial emissions in Europe.

Accelerating decarbonisation

CCS is a necessary solution to decarbonise industry and reach net zero goals. Northern Lights has developed an open and flexible infrastructure to transport CO2 from capture sites by ship to a receiving terminal in western Norway for intermediate storage, before being transported by pipeline for safe and permanent storage in a reservoir 2,600 metres under the seabed.

The first phase development of the project is the transport and storage component of Longship, the Norwegian Government’s full-scale carbon capture and storage project. We have completed the first phase of Northern Lights’ CO₂ transport and storage infrastructure, with an initial capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year. With operations starting in summer 2025, we are now  expanding to a minimum of 5 million tonnes annually with a commercially based investment to meet growing demand from European industries. This is supported by an EU grant from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).

Northern Lights aims to contribute to establishing a commercial CCS market in Europe. Northern Lights is now ready for operations, and will be the first to deliver cross-border CO2 transport and storage as a service.

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Onshore storage tanks.

Facts

  • Once the CO2 is captured from its source, it will be liquefied and transported by custom designed ships, injected and permanently stored 2,600 metres below the seabed of the North Sea.
  • The CO2 receiving terminal is located at the premises of Energiparken industrial area in the municipality of Øygarden in western Norway.
  • The CO2 storage complex has been named Aurora and is part of Exploitation Licence EL001 which was awarded in January 2019.
  • In March 2020, the Eos confirmation well was successfully drilled and completed, confirming the reservoir characteristics and storage capacity.
  • In 2022, detailed well planning was performed and the drilling and completion programs for the phase 1 injection well A-7 AH and contingent well C-1 H were finalised.
  • The Northern Lights JV was launched in March 2021.
  • The infrastructure of the CO2 receiving terminal was completed in 2024.
  • In March 2025, Northern Lights took the next step with a commercially based investment decision for Phase 2, expanding our annual capacity to a minimum of 5 million tonnes of CO₂.
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CO₂ receiving terminal in the municipality of Øygarden in western Norway. The facilities are complete and ready for operations.