Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies to expand CO2 storage site with $714m investment

Michael Holder
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The Northern Lights carbon storage facility in Norway | Credit: Torstein Lund Eik / Equinor
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The Northern Lights carbon storage facility in Norway | Credit: Torstein Lund Eik / Equinor

Northern Lights joint venture expected to begin injecting captured industrial CO2 under the seabed off the west coast of Norway from this summer

Oil and gas giants Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies have finalised plans to jointly invest more than $700m in expanding the capacity of their subsea carbon storage facility off the western coast of Norway,...

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