Norway's Northern Lights CCS project begins operations

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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

Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies confirm the first CO2 from the flagship project has been injected and successfully stored 2,600 metres under the seabed

Oil giants Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies have announced their Northern Lights subsea carbon storage facility (CCS) is up and running, with the first volumes of CO2 successfully injected and stored...

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