Longship (includes Northern Lights 1)
The Longship CCS project plans to capture, transport and store 0.8 Mtpa of CO2. The capture of CO2 will take place in two sites on the east coast of Norway (a cement factory and a waste to energy plant). The liquefied CO2 will be shipped for permanent storage at Aurora saline aquifer below the Norwegian North Sea. The Northern Lights project is part of the Longship CCS project and involves only the transport and storage part. The project has the vision to expand and receive additional volumes of CO2 from several capture sites in Norway or other countries (1.5Mtpa and then 5 Mtpa).
Project type:CaptureStorageTransport
Participants:Equinor Shell TotalEnergies
Country:Norway
Type of capture:Cluster (multiple industrial sources)
IOGP members involved: Equinor, Shell, TotalEnergies
Planned start of operation: 2024
CO2 capacity at start date: 1.5
CO2 capacity after completion: Expansion through Northern Lights 2 project
Status: Advanced Development
Type of storage: Offshore - Saline Aquifer (Aurora), Norwegian North Sea
Funding and support scheme: Project of Common Interest
Info related to the funding and support scheme: Yes - Combination of Norwegian state and EU funding, as well as a degree of self-funding by the capture plants (Norcem and Fortum). The total estimated cost of NOK 25.1 billion includes the initial investment and 10-year operating period. The Norwegian state’s total contribution is NOK 16.8 billion. A FID was taken by the Norwegian government in Dec 2020.
Notes: The CO2 receiving terminal will be located at the premises of Energiparken industrial area in the municipality of Øygarden in western Norway
Links: https://network.bellona.org/content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/Longship-Briefing_Bellona-1.pdfhttps://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/sccs/project-info/2726https://ccushub.ogci.com/focus_hubs/northern-lights/https://norlights.com/about-the-longship-project/