Happy Wednesday!
Did
anyone happen to read the Oil & Gas Journal’s OGJ Daily Update
Newsletter on August 25, 2025, their article titled, “Northern Lights
achieves first injection, storage of CO2 volumes in North Sea”? In the article, it speaks on Northern Lights Joint Venture has accomplished
a milestone by completing its first phase by injecting liquified carbon dioxide
(CO2) into the floor of the North Sea and officially becoming a green infrastructure
developer. Equinor, Shell PLC and
TotalEnergies combined their efforts and established Northern Lights Joint Venture
with Equinor as their Technical Service Provider and in charge of the facilities
and infrastructure. This green
infrastructure developer has started to inject CO2 into a basin which is 2600m beneath
the North Sea and around 62 miles offshore Western Norway. The Northern Light JV collects the CO2
and transports it in a 130-m-longship liquified-carbon (L-C) carrier which was conceived
by Shell, and they have two ships named “Northern Pathfinder” and “Northern
Pioneer.” The L-C carrier can hold up to
7,500 cubic meters of liquified CO2 which collects the CO2 from industrial
sites currently in Norway. Once the ship
has reached its terminal in Øygarden, Norway it then unloads the
CO2 which then travels through a pipeline and is inserted into the Aurora reservoir
beneath the North Sea. It is anticipated
the Aurora Reservoir will be able to hold 1.5 million tons per year of liquefied
CO2. In the Spring, Northern Lights JV
made their final investment decision on Phase 2, and they are moving forward
with project with completion expected in three-year timeframe. We wish
them luck! If you would like to read
more of Oil and Gas Journal’s article, please click the link: Northern
Lights achieves first injection, storage of CO2 volumes in North Sea | Oil
& Gas Journal.
If
you would like help in looking into how to transport your product more efficiently
and with less of a carbon footprint or you would like to update your equipment
to make it more efficient with less emissions, contact us via the email in the Blog
and check out our ESC website!
We hope you have a wonderful evening and a great week!
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