Northern Lights has injected first CO₂ from wastewater

Northern Lights has started to inject the first biogenic CO₂ from wastewater treatment delivered to our receiving terminal in Øygarden.

Since February the carbon removal company Inherit has delivered CO₂ cargos to Northern Lights from the Veas wastewater treatment plant in Slemmestad near Oslo.

Veas is Norway’s largest wastewater treatment plant and handles wastewater from more than 800,000 inhabitants in the Oslo region. As the wastewater is processed in their biogas production unit, biogenic CO₂ from the process is captured, liquified and finally transported to the Northern Lights receiving terminal by cargo trucks.

Inherit develops carbon removal projects from biogas for storage and provides carbon removal credits to companies. This is a pilot project for Northern Lights where we offer capacity to receive up to 7,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year from Veas in the agreement period with Inherit.

In Øygarden Inherit offloads the CO₂ trucks to the tank farm from where Northern Lights transports the CO₂ offshore via pipeline and will safely store it 2,600 metres below the seabed.

In August 2025 the Northern Lights started storage operations as the first CO₂ volumes were transported from the terminal via the 100-kilometre pipeline and injected into the Aurora reservoir.

About Northern Lights

• Northern Lights offers CO₂ transport and storage as a service and started first injection of liquid CO₂ for permanent storage in August 2025.
• Our mission is to enable the reduction and removal of industrial emissions in Europe.
• Liquefied CO₂ from capture sites is shipped to the Northern Lights onshore receiving terminal in western Norway, before transported by pipeline for permanent storage in a reservoir 2,600 meters under the seabed.
• Northern Lights JV is a registered, incorporated General Partnership with Shared Liability (DA) owned by Equinor, TotalEnergies and Shell.
• 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, Stockholm Exergi in Sweden, and Inherit in Norway.