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Maritime solution specialists MISC and K LINE have secured a second long-term charter from Northern Lights for a new 12,000m3 liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) carrier.
The vessel will transport captured and liquefied CO2 from industrial hubs across Europe to offshore storage facilities in Norway, supporting the region’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure.
This is the second contract awarded to the K LINE and MISC consortium and follows an earlier contract signed in January 2026 when Northern Lights announced charter agreements for four additional LCO2 ships.
It also aligns with Northern Lights’ broader expansion plans to scale up its CO2 transport and storage infrastructure.
Northern Lights, owned equally by Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies, is developing Europe’s first open-access CO2 transport and storage system and has already begun receiving CO2 from industrial sources.
These include emissions captured from wastewater treatment operations at the VEAS facility in Slemmestad, which serves over 800,000 people in the Oslo region, and from a cement plant in Brevik.
The joint venture began operations in 2025 with its first CO2 injections, including volumes captured from the Brevik cement plant.
In its first phase, the project targets 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.
