Norway Bergen Outdoor Energy Storage Project

Northern Lights carbon dioxide transport and storage facilities at Øygarden outside Bergen (Photo: Northern Lights) The Northern Lights CO 2 transport and storage facility, in Øygarden, near Bergen, Norway, was officially opened on 26 September. It is a joint venture between Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies.

The full-scale project includes capture of CO 2 from industrial sources and shipping of liquid CO 2 to an onshore terminal on the Norwegian west coast. From there, the liquified CO 2 will be transported by pipeline to an offshore storage location subsea in the North Sea, for permanent storage.

Daily news and in-depth stories in your inbox Northern Lights CO2 transport and storage facility in Norway was officially opened on September 26, 2024.

The Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre, officially opened the Northern Lights visitor centre in October 2022. The Northern Lights project is part of the Norwegian full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. The full-scale project will include capture of CO 2 from one or two industrial capture sources.

The Northern Lights CCS project off the coast of Norway, which will begin operation by 2024, has enough storage for the equivalent of 750,000 car emissions every year in the first phase. Equinor's Smeaheia storage site, located to the south of Northern Lights, has the potential to increase storage capacity many times over.

What is described as the world's first cross-border CO2 transport and storage facility is completed and “ready to receive and store CO2.” Northern Lights carbon dioxide transport and storage facilities at Øygarden outside Bergen (Photo: Northern Lights)