Joint venture partners Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies have injected and stored the first CO2 volumes at the Northern Lights CO2 project in the Norwegian North Sea, marking the start of operations of what is said to be the world’s first third-party CO2 transport and storage facility.

The first CO2 volumes were transported by vessel from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik, Norway, to Northern Lights ’ facilities in Øygarden, then injected and stored in the Aurora reservoir 2,600 meters under the North Sea seabed.