Norway’s Northern Lights carbon storage project has issued its first certificates confirming the permanent offshore storage of CO2.
The certificates verify that CO2 captured at Heidelberg Materials’ Brevik cement plant has been received, transported and injected into the Aurora reservoir beneath the North Sea.
They are intended to provide customers with documented proof of storage and form part of the project’s digital measurement and reporting framework.
Tim Heijn, Managing Director of Northern Lights JV, said the certificates are underpinned by a detailed monitoring, reporting and verification system. He commented, “Credible carbon accounting is essential to the integrity of the emerging CCS industry.”
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