Northern Lights has received the Certificate of Completion from the Norwegian State, represented by the Ministry of Energy, with effect from 1 October 2025.

See the confirmation statement from the Ministry of Energy here (in Norwegian).

Completion under the Grant Agreement occurs when the transport and storage facilities have been built, tested and are ready for operations. By that, the establishment period under the Grant Agreement has been finalised and Northern Lights JV enters into the operating period.

On 21 August, the first CO₂ volumes from Northern Lights was transported through the 100-kilometre pipeline and injected into the Aurora offshore reservoir 2,600 meters below the seabed of the Norwegian North Sea.

 

About Northern Lights 

  • Northern Lights offers CO₂ transport and storage as a service.  
  • Our mission is to enable the reduction and removal of industrial emissions in Europe. 
  • Liquefied CO₂ from capture sites is shipped to our onshore receiving terminal in western Norway, before transported by pipeline for permanent storage in a reservoir 2,600 meters under the seabed. 
  • Northern Lights is the first company to offer commercial CCS services. 
  • The first phase of Northern Lights is part of Longship, the Norwegian Government’s full-scale carbon capture and storage project. 
  • Northern Lights will transport and store CO₂ from two Norwegian industries; Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik and the Hafslund Celsio’ waste-to-energy plant in Oslo. 
  • In addition, the Northern Lights JV has signed commercial agreements with Yara in the Netherlands, Ørsted in Denmark, and Stockholm Exergi in Sweden.