First CO2 storage in Northern Lights

Successful transportation of CO₂ volumes from Brevik cement plant to Northern Lights’ storage facilities

TOTALENERGIES and their partners Equinor and Shell have announced that the first CO₂ volumes were successfully transported by vessel from Heidelberg Materials’ Brevik cement plant, in Norway, to Northern Lights’ facilities in Øygarden. They were then injected 2,600m below the seabed into the storage facilities, 100km off the coast of western Norway.

Northern Lights is the world’s first merchant CO₂ transportation and storage project. The first phase of the project has a storage capacity of 1.5 million tonnes of CO₂/year, which has been fully booked by customers from Norway and Continental Europe. The final investment decision of the second phase was announced in March 2025, which will increase the project capacity to more than 5 million tonnes of CO₂/year from 2028.

The development of CO₂ transportation and storage services is one of the necessary levers for reducing emissions for European industry. Northern Lights has already developed a strong customer base in Norway and continental Europe, including Heidelberg Materials’ Brevik facility.

‘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 - carbon neutrality at TotalEnergies.