Northern Lights JV DA’s engineering, procurement, and construction contractor Aker Solutions ASA has contracted ABB Ltd. to deliver the project’s main electrical, automation, and safety systems. A carbon capture and storage (CCS) joint venture between Equinor ASA, Shell PLC, and TotalEnergies SE, Northern Lights’ first phase is due to be completed mid-2024 with the capacity to permanently store as much as 1.5 million tonnes/year (tpy) of CO2, expandable to more than 5 million tpy in a second development phase.
Purpose-built ships will transport captured and liquefied CO2 from emitters to the Northern Lights Øygarden terminal in western Norway, which will be remotely operated by Equinor from its Sture terminal, about 7 km away. To enable remote operations, ABB will build an extended operator workstation at the Northern Lights terminal which will work in tandem with the central control room in Sture.
The JV in March 2022 awarded Global Maritime a marine warranty services contract for the project.
Northern Lights is part of Longship, the Norwegian government’s full-scale CCS project, which aims to store about 0.8 million tpy of CO2 by 2024 from Fortum Oslo Varme, a waste-to-energy plant in Oslo, and a cement factory in Brevik.
