TotalEnergies, along with its partners Equinor and Shell, has successfully sent the first CO2 volumes by a vessel from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik to Northern Lights, the world’s first cross-border CO2 transport and storage facility, in Øygarden, Norway.
In a statement, TotalEnergies said that these volumes were injected 2,600 meters below the seabed into the storage facilities, 100 km away from the coast of Western Norway.
Northern Lights’ initial phase of the project offers a storage capacity of 1.5 million tons of CO₂ per year, fully booked by customers across Norway and continental Europe. In March 2025, the partners approved the second phase of the project, which will expand capacity to over 5 million tons annually from 2028.
With the start of operations of Northern Lights, we are entering a new phase for the CCS industry in Europe. This industry now moves to reality, offering hard-to-abate sectors a credible and tangible way to reduce CO2 emissions, said Arnaud Le Foll, Senior Vice President of New Business for Carbon Neutrality at TotalEnergies.
TotalEnergies, Equinor, and Shell are among the leading global players in carbon capture and storage (CCS), jointly developing the Northern Lights project in Norway, the world’s first open-access CO₂ transport and storage infrastructure
