Oslo – The world’s first commercial service, which offers carbon storage on the Norwegian coast, performed its inaugurative CO2 injection to the North Sea bottom, Northern Lights Consortium said Monday.
The Northern Lights project, led by oil giants Equinor, Shell and Totalenergies, includes transportation and burial CO2 captured by Smokestacks throughout Europe. The goal is to prevent emissions to release the atmosphere and thus help stop climate change.
“Now we have injected and safely protected the first CO2 reservoir,” said Tim Heyan, CEO of Northern Lights. “Our ships, equipment and wells are now running.”
Specifically, after capturing CO2, it is broken down and transported by boat to the Ogarden Terminal near Bergen on the west coast of Norway.
The liquefied CO2 (LCO2) carrier of the Northern Northern Lights is shown in 2025. June 17 In Aksershuskaia, Oslo, associated with an international high -level carbon management conference. /Credit: Stian Lysberg Solum/NTB/AFP/Getty
It is then transferred to large reservoirs before injection of a 68 mile pipeline to the seabed at a depth of about 1.6 miles to keep it constantly.
Carbon fixation and storage (CCS) technology has been included in the United Nations Intergovernmental Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency (TEA) climate, especially to reduce trace of industries such as cement and steel CO2.
The first injection of CO2 into the northern lights in the geological reservoir was from Germany in Heidelberg’s cement factory in Brevik, Norwegian southeast.
However, CCS technology is complex, controversial and expensive.
In addition to financial assistance, it is currently more profitable for industries to acquire “Pollution Permissions” in the European coal market than to pay for their CO2 fixation, transportation and storage.
The Northern Light Carbon Storage Place in Øygarden, Norway, is seen in 2025. May 28 / Credit: The Washington Post / Getty
Northern Lights has so far signed only three commercial contracts in Europe. One is with Yara’s ammonia plant in the Netherlands, the other with two OSSTED biofuel factories in Denmark, and the third with Stockholm Exgi thermal electric Sweden.
In essence, the annual CO2 storage capacity of the Northern Lights is 1.7 million tons, which is expected to increase to 5.5 million tonnes to the end of the decade.
Although efforts such as Northern Lights are directed at carbon capture directly from the most surveyed sources-provoking smoke chimneys, it has also been started to record gas from the ambient air, further controversial methodology.
Mark Jacobson, Professor of Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, told CBS News this year that he questioned the motivation and effectiveness of both types of carbon capture, and he said openly that “direct air catching is not a real solution. We don’t have time to waste this useless technology.”
Jacobson believes that direct air locking is primarily a “boondoggle” and more efforts should be focused on the transition to clean energy sources.
The US currently receives about 60% of its electricity from fossil fuel.
“You have to think about what offers this technology,” Jacobson said. “Who can benefit from carbon capture and direct air catching? It’s fossil fuel company.”
“They just say, ‘Well, we get as much CO2 as we spread. Therefore, we should be allowed to be constantly polluted, constantly digging, “Jacobson told CBS News, adding that his position did not make his popular energy sector.
“Oh yes, diesel people hate me, people gasoline hate me, ethanol people hate me, nuclear people hate me, coal people hate me. They do it because I tell the truth,” he said. “We don’t need any of these technologies.”
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