Aker Solutions expanding Northern Lights CO2 reception facilities

    April 8, 2025
    Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract from Equinor for the second phase of the Northern Lights carbon storage project.
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    Northern Lights Phase 2 illustration
    Northern Lights Phase 2 illustration

    Equinor has awarded Aker Solutions an EPC contract to expand the onshore facilities for the Northern Lights Phase 2 carbon capture, transport and storage project in Norway, according to an April 1 news release.

    It follows Aker Solutions completion of work for the first-phase development in 2024.

    Phase 1 is now ready to receive CO2 emitted from Norwegian and other European industrial groups for delivery to the North Sea for injection into a subsurface reservoir.

    Under Phase 2, the CO2 transport and storage capacity will rise from 1.5 MM to 5 MM metric tons/year, supported by funding from the Connecting Europe Facility for Energy.

    Aker Solutions will spread engineering and construction between its locations at Fornebu and Stord, Norway, and Mumbai, India, with the contractual terms including incentives for efficient and safe delivery.

    Work is due to be completed in 2028.

    Northern Lights project updates:

    Courtesy Subsea7 LinkedIn
    Subsea7 awarded contract for Northern Lights Phase 2
    March 31, 2025
    Equinor has appointed Subsea7 as technical service provider for the Northern Lights Phase 2 carbon capture and storage project in the Norwegian North Sea.
    Courtesy Torstein Lund Eik / Equinor
    Partners investing billions in expansion of the Northern Lights CCS-project
    March 28, 2025
    Equinor and partners Shell and TotalEnergies have committed to invest NOK7.5 billion ($714 million) in a Phase 2 development of their Northern Lights carbon capture project.
    Courtesy Norwegian Offshore Directorate
    Northern Pioneer CO2 transport vessel
    Feb. 10, 2025
    Northern Pioneer, said to be the world's first commercial liquefied CO2 transport ship, has arrived in Norway.
    Courtesy Northern Lights
    Northern Lights CCS facilities at Øygarden outside of Bergen
    Sept. 26, 2024
    Construction work has finished on the Northern Lights development’s cross-border CO2 transport and storage site in Øygarden, near Bergen.

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