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The fourth dedicated carbon dioxide (CO2) carrier for the Northern Lights project has arrived in Øygarden, Norway, completing the project’s initial transport fleet.
Following delivery from Chinese shipbuilder Dalian Shipbuilding Offshore Company (DSOC), the Northern Purpose from Dalian, China, in May before arriving in Norway.
The vessel joins , , and , giving Northern Lights four dedicated carriers needed to support Phase 1 CO2 transport operations across Europe.
In its first phase, the Northern Lights 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.
The company will continue to expand its vessel fleet through Phase 2, including the addition of larger CO2 ships from 2028.
Tim Heijn, Managing Director of Northern Lights, said, “This is an important milestone for Northern Lights to ensure reliable and flexible CO2 transport and storage services to our customers across Europe.”
Northern Lights is owned equally by global energy firms Equinor, TotalEnergies, and Shell, and its first phase is part of Longship, the Norwegian Government’s full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.
Captured CO2 is liquefied, shipped to the Northern Lights onshore terminal in western Norway, transported by pipeline, and permanently sequestered 2,600 metres beneath the seabed.
