Northern Lights JV has issued the first storage certificates for CO₂ permanently stored in the Aurora reservoir. The certificates document the quantities of CO₂ transported and stored.

“Credible carbon accounting is essential to the integrity of the emerging CCS industry. It includes a precise tracking of CO₂ volumes transported and stored, as well as emissions arising across the value chain. The CO₂ accounting and measurement procedures are described in Northern Lights’ Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV).  Data is recorded in our digital system, which is designed as ledger for all certificates. We are proud to be able to issue the first storage certificates for our customers.” says Tim Heijn, Managing director in Northen Lights JV. 

Each Northern Lights JV certificate is issued to a specific CO₂ ship cargo and details the quantity of CO₂ stored, with a breakdown of its share of relevant lifecycle emissions – from initial loading to the issuance of storage certificates, which also include and account for emissions from the facilities and operations. This process ensures that the certificate serves as transparent and verifiable proof of emission storage. 

In August, the first CO₂ volumes  were transported through the 100-kilometre pipeline and injected into the Aurora offshore reservoir 2,600 meters below the seabed of the Norwegian North Sea. 

Following the start of the CO₂ injection, Northern Lights has issued the very first set of storage certificates documenting that the CO₂ volumes captured at the Heidelberg Material’s cement factory in Brevik have been transported and stored permanently in the reservoir.  

The MRV framework and digital solution in Northern Lights are designed to deliver the transparency and accuracy required by both compliance and voluntary carbon markets. By issuing the CO₂ storage certificates Northern Lights can provide industrial customers with verifiable proof of permanent emissions storage in a growing market for decarbonised products and services.

 

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.