TotalEnergies: Norway: Northern Lights Facilities Completed and Ready to Store CO2
26 Settembre 2024 - 1:55PM
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Regulatory News:
TotalEnergies (Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE) and its partners,
Equinor and Shell, announce the completion of the CO2 receiving and
storage facilities of Northern Lights Joint-Venture in Norway. The
facilities consist in a terminal that will receive CO2 cargos, a
100 km subsea pipeline for CO2 transportation to the offshore
storage location, and subsea injection facilities for safe and
permanent CO2 storage in a reservoir 2,600 meters below the
seabed.
Northern Lights is now ready to receive and permanently store
CO2 from European industries, with first CO2 injection expected in
2025. Developing CO2 transportation and storage services is one of
the necessary levers to reduce emissions and a realistic
decarbonization solution for European industry.
Northern Lights is the world’s first commercial CO2
transportation and storage project. The first phase of the project
was supported by the Norwegian government and has a capacity of 1.5
Mt CO2/year, which has been fully booked by customers in Norway and
Continental Europe. Studies are under way for a capacity expansion
to more than 5 Mt CO2/y in a second phase.
“Today’s ceremony marks a significant milestone - one that fills
us with great pride and hope for the future. This is a proud moment
not just for Northern Lights as a company, but for Norway and for
the advancement of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) worldwide”,
says Terje Aasland, Norwegian Minister of Energy.
“Today we achieved an important milestone on our journey to
demonstrate CCS as a viable option to help achieve climate goals.
The whole world is looking to Norway to learn about CCS. Since
construction started, we have welcomed more than 10,000 visitors
from more than 50 countries. Today we celebrated the completion of
the facilities together with the people of our host municipality
Øygarden, the Norwegian Ministry of Energy and key stakeholders,
including policy makers and industry partners in the CCS chain. All
are instrumental for the success of Northern Lights and the CCS
business in Europe”, said Tim Heijn, Managing Director of
Northern Lights JV.
“We are proud to celebrate today the commissioning of the
Northern Lights facilities. It has been a long journey since our
partnership with the Norwegian State, Equinor and Shell was
established in 2017. This major milestone signals the readiness of
the infrastructure to store CO2 and we look forward to receiving
the first volumes from hard-to-abate emitters in 2025. This will
bring a strong contribution to the decarbonization of European
industry”, said Arnaud Le Foll, Senior Vice-President New
Business - Carbon Neutrality at TotalEnergies.
“This is an exciting day for both Equinor, Northern Lights Joint
Venture and our partners Shell and TotalEnergies. We are proud that
Northern Lights, as part of the Longship value chain, has now been
completed and is ready to receive CO2. It is an important milestone
in the work of establishing a Carbon Capture and Storage
value-chain in Europe”, says Grete Tveit, Senior Vice President
Low Carbon Solutions at Equinor.
“Carbon capture and storage has a vital role to play in helping
society achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. Alongside efforts
to avoid and reduce emissions, CCS will be an essential tool in
supporting our customers on their decarbonisation journeys,
particularly in those industries that are harder to decarbonise. I
am delighted that the Northern Lights facilities are now ready to
receive CO2 from industrial sites across Europe, for Shell this is
an important part of our integrated offer to our customers”, said
Anna Mascolo, Executive Vice President, Shell Low Carbon
Solutions
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About Northern Lights Northern Lights, owned in equal
shares by TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell, is developing the
world’s first cross-border CO2 transport and storage
infrastructure. Delivering CO2 transport and storage as a service,
Northern Lights enables mitigation of industrial emissions that
cannot be avoided and accelerates the decarbonisation of European
industry. Drawing on experience from over 25 years of CO2 storage
on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Northern Lights is at the
forefront of developing CCS technologies. The company will
transport liquefied CO2 from capture sites to an onshore receiving
terminal in western Norway, before transporting it by pipeline for
permanent storage in a reservoir 2,600 metres under the seabed. CCS
is a necessary climate solution to decarbonise industry and reduce
or remove industrial CO2 emissions. www.norlights.com
About TotalEnergies and Carbon Storage TotalEnergies’
focus is first to avoid emissions and then to reduce them by
developing and deploying a systematic approach, asset-by-asset, to
implement the best available technologies. For residual emissions,
the Company is developing industrial projects for carbon storage.
Backed by core competencies in large-scale project management, gas
processing and geosciences, TotalEnergies is on track to enable
significant decarbonization of European businesses through projects
such as Northern Lights in Norway, Aramis in the Netherlands and
Bifrost in Denmark.
About TotalEnergies TotalEnergies is a global integrated
energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and
biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity.
Our more than 100,000 employees are committed to provide as many
people as possible with energy that is more reliable, more
affordable and more sustainable. Active in about 120 countries,
TotalEnergies places sustainability at the heart of its strategy,
its projects and its operations.
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