🇳🇴 Northern Lights delivers plan for development and operation (PDO) for expansion

Oslo, 1^st of April 2025

Today, Northern Lights JV delivered its’ plan for development and operation (PDO) of the recently announced expansion phase to the Norwegian Ministry of Energy, seeking approval of the development plan.

Northern Lights announced on March 27^th its’ final investment decision for the expansion project which will increase transport and storage capacity to a minimum of 5 million tonnes CO₂ per year, following the signing of a commercial agreement to transport and store up to 900,000 tonnes CO₂ from Stockholm Exergi annually. The expansion is enabled by a grant from the Connecting Europe Facility for Energy (CEF Energy) funding scheme.

Stockholm Exergi is Northern Lights’ third commercial customer along with Yara in the Netherlands and Ørsted in Denmark. In addition, Northern Lights will transport and store CO₂ from Norwegian emitters Hafslund Celsio in Oslo and Heidelberg Materials in Brevik, as part of the government-supported Longship project.

The PDO for the first construction phase of the Northern Lights facilities was approved by the Ministry of Energy in February 2021 and operations are scheduled to start Q3 2025. The expansion plans leverage existing infrastructure and includes additional onshore storage tanks, pumps, a new jetty, injection wells, and CO₂ transport ships to enable an increased injection rate and volume.

The decision to expand the Northern Lights CO₂ transport and storage services represents an important step in developing a commercially viable CCS market in Europe and confirms Northern Lights’ commitment to offer an effective solution to reduce emissions from European industries.