TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell announce first CO2 transported from cement manufacturing area to subsea storage

TotalEnergies (Paris, France; www.totalenergies.com) and its partners, Equinor (Stavanger, Norway; www.equinor.com) and Shell (London, U.K.; www.shell.com), announce that the first CO₂ volumes were successfully transported by vessel from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik, Norway to Northern Lights’ facilities in Øygarden. They were then injected 2,600 meters below the seabed into the storage facilities, 100 km off the coast of Western Norway.

Northern Lights (www.norlights.com) is the world’s first merchant CO₂ transportation and storage project. The first phase of the project has a storage capacity of 1.5 Mt 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 Mt CO₂/year from 2028.

The development of CO₂ transport and storage services is one of the necessary levers for reducing emissions for European industry. Northern Lights has developed a strong customer base in Norway and continental Europe, with already five industrial customers: Hafslund Celsio and Heidelberg Materials in Norway, Yara in the Netherlands, Ørsted in Denmark and Stockholm Exergi in Sweden.

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 New Business – Carbon Neutrality at TotalEnergies.

Northern Lights, owned in equal shares by TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell, is developing the world’s first cross-border CO₂ transport and storage infrastructure. Delivering CO₂ transport and storage as a service, Northern Lights enables mitigation of industrial emissions that cannot be avoided and accelerates the decarbonization of European industry.

TotalEnergies is a global integrated energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas, biogas and low-carbon hydrogen, renewables and electricity.