Borg CO₂ and Northern Lights to collaborate on carbon capture and storage

Borg CO₂ is supported by CLIMIT.

Text: Borg CO₂ and Northern Lights

A joint project between 18 industry partners

Borg CO₂ is a joint project between 18 industry partners and the port of Borg, which will serve as host for a future CO₂ loading terminal. The plan is to transport captured CO₂ to this terminal, where it will be loaded onboard a Northern Lights operated ship for transport to the intermediate storage terminal at Øygarden on the Norwegian west coast. From Øygarden the CO₂ will be injected into a 100 km long pipeline and injected into permanent storage in a reservoir 2.6 km below the seabed.

Borg CO₂ is developing a carbon capture and storage (CCS) solution for emissions from industrial facilities in Fredrikstad, Sarpsborg and Halden. The industrial cluster employs 1,400 people and is responsible for emissions of almost 700,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually. The aim is to capture and store up to 90% of the total emissions, or around 630,000 tonnes a year.

Northern Lights delivers CO₂ transport and storage as a service and aims to enable the decarbonisation of industrial emissions and to facilitate the removal of CO₂ from the air. The company is a joint venture between partners Equinor, Shell and Total.

“This collaboration with Northern Lights is important for the development of carbon capture and storage solutions in the region. Without the pioneering work done by Northern Lights to create an open source third party storage facility, carbon capture would not be possible in our region”, said Tore Lundestad, managing director of Borg CO₂ and Harbour Master for the port of Borg. 

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