The project aims to use surplus heat to capture 400,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, a third of the emissions caused from producing 1.2 megatonnes of cement per year. Longship’s first sub-project is a carbon capture plant at a cement factory located in Brevik, owned by Norcem-Heldelberg, a subsidiary of Germany’s HeidelbergCement. The aim of phase two is to increase storage capacity to 5-7 megatonnes per year by 2026. Construction of the Northern Lights terminal began in 2021, with the first phase expected to be complete by mid-2024, offering an initial storage capacity of 1.5 megatonnes of carbon dioxide per year over 25 years. Norway’s state-led oil and gas company Equinor, along with oil majors Shell and Total, are partners to the Northern Lights portion of the project, the transport and storage facility, bringing significant experience in carbon dioxide storage in depleted offshore gas reservoirs. The Longship network will initially link two sub-projects that capture carbon dioxide from cement and waste-to-energy plants, with a storage plant in the North Sea. The megaproject has received considerable technical, operational, and financial support from Norway’s public sector, with the government expected to cover some two-thirds of total phase-one project costs, valued at over C$3.5 billion. Longship is envisioned to be a network of carbon capture and storage projects that could serve as one of Europe’s first large-scale initiatives to tackle industrial decarbonization, facilitating emissions reductions from heavy industries that are not able to fuel-switch or electrify.
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