Equinor Hires ABL to Support Northern Lights CCS Expansion

Energy and marine consultancy ABL has secured a contract by Equinor to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services to the Northern Lights Phase 2 carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Norway.

The Northern Lights project is part of the Norwegian full-scale CCS project Longship and based on Gassnova SF’s design basis with transport and storage of an annual volume of 1.5 Mt/y CO2.

As part of the full-scale project, Northern Lights will receive liquid CO2 from customers with carbon capture and liquification facilities. Unallocated capacity will be made available for CO2 from other national and international capture sites.

Equinor and its partners in Northern Lights JV have completed the first phase of Northern Lights’ CO2 transport and storage infrastructure. With operations started in the summer of 2025, Northern Lights is now expanding to a minimum of five million tonnes annual storage capacity with a commercially based investment to meet growing demand from European industries.

Under the terms of the contract, ABL’s Norway operations, based in Stavanger, will provide marine verification and warranty services with