Bergen Norway 2025 Energy Storage Project

The Northern Lights project

In August 2025, the first CO₂ volumes were injected and successfully stored in the reservoir. The world''s first third party CO 2 transport and storage facility is now in operation, contributing to

2026 Jan 13

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Northern Lights Ready for First CO2 in 2025

The full-scale project includes capturing CO 2 from industrial sources and shipping liquid CO 2 to the terminal in Øygarden, near Bergen, Norway. From there, the liquified CO 2

2025 Oct 15

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Boost for blue hydrogen as Equinor opens world''s first cross

The Northern Lights facility in the Barents Sea, off the coast of Bergen, is now ready to start receiving shipments of 1.5 million tonnes per year of liquefied carbon dioxide via

2025 May 13

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Northern Lights Ready for First CO2 in 2025

The full-scale project includes capturing CO 2 from

2025 Oct 16

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Northern Lights To Begin First Carbon Storage Operations In 2025

Norway-based carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCS) initiative Northern Lights has announced that it will start its first CO2 storage operations in early 2025.

2025 Feb 25

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Ingenious underwater energy storage system

Installed off Bergen, the system consists of vast hollow spheres anchored 400 metres below the surface. When surplus wind power is available, electricity pumps water out

2025 Feb 08

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The Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage

Kate Moran, president and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada, an oceans research observatory, is working on a project exploring carbon

2025 May 12

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Northern Lights To Begin First Carbon Storage

Norway-based carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCS) initiative Northern Lights has announced that it will start its first CO2

2025 Nov 18

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The Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage facilities in Bergen

Kate Moran, president and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada, an oceans research observatory, is working on a project exploring carbon storage in basalt rock below the seabed.

2025 Apr 20

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Northern Lights: world first cross border facility completed

The Northern Lights CO 2 transport and storage facility, in Øygarden, near Bergen, Norway, was officially opened on 26 September. It is a joint venture between Equinor, Shell

2025 Aug 12

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Norway''s $2.8 billion full-scale carbon capture

The project is said to reflect the Norwegian government''s ambition to develop a full-scale CCS value chain in Norway,

2025 May 10

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Northern Lights: world first cross border facility

The Northern Lights CO 2 transport and storage facility, in Øygarden, near Bergen, Norway, was officially opened on 26 September.

2026 Jan 26

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Norway''s $2.8 billion full-scale carbon capture transport and storage

The project is said to reflect the Norwegian government''s ambition to develop a full-scale CCS value chain in Norway, demonstrating the potential of this decarbonization

2025 Sep 24

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Norway''s hedged bet on Europe''s energy future: A garbage

Tanks that hold thousands of tons of liquid carbon dioxide extracted from the exhaust produced by a cement plant in Oygarden, near the port city of Bergen, Norway, June

2025 Jul 20

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Historic CO2 ''graveyard'' launches in Norway to fight climate change

The Northern Lights consortium, which runs the site, announced Monday that the first-ever CO2 injection into the North Sea seabed has been completed by the world''s first

2025 Jul 17

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