Norway launches the world’s first full-scale value chain for carbon capture and storage (CCS) as the Longship project places its first shipment in storage.

The project includes carbon capture at Heidelberg Materials’ cement plant in Brevik and the planned facility at Hafslund Celsio’s waste-to-energy plant in Oslo. The carbon is transported by ship and safely stored 2,600 meters beneath the seabed at Øygarden, near Bergen, managed by Northern Lights – a joint venture between Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies.

The first shipment was transported from the Brevik cement plant to the Northern Lights facility in Øygarden in early June and the carbon has now been transferred to storage tanks, and injection into the subsea reservoirs is scheduled to begin in August.

Longship is the first project in the world to integrate the entire CCS chain from capture to transport and storage. Phase 1 will take 1.5 million tonnes of carbon annually and Phase 2 will increase the capacity to over 5 million tonnes per year.

Despite Norway being outside the EU, it has been has recognised as a “Project of Common Interest,” enabling €13m in funding from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).

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