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The Northern Lights joint venture has received its fourth dedicated carbon dioxide carrying ship.
The Northern Purpose vessel will set sail from Dalian, China, towards Norway to start operations. It follows Northern Phoenix and will transport CO2 from Yara.
The carbon capture and storage project recently began injecting its first volumes of .
Northern Lights, owned equally by Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies, has received CO2 derived from wastewater processing at the Veas facility in Slemmestad, which serves more than 800,000 people in the Oslo region.
The joint venture began operations in 2025 with the injection of CO2 captured from industrial sources, including CO2 collected from a cement plant in Brevik.
It is widely described as the world’s first open-access CO2 transport and storage network, allowing third-party emitters across Europe to ship and permanently store emissions offshore.
In its first phase, the project has a storage capacity of around 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year, with plans to expand to more than five million tonnes annually in a second phase later this decade.
