"Through its cross-border CO2 transport and storage infrastructure, Northern Lights is enabling the first European full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) value chain, paving the way for cost reductions and scale-up of similar, future projects," Northern Lights said. In December 2020, Equinor awarded contracts to Aker Solutions, to deliver the new CO2 receiving facilities Northern Lights outside Bergen, Norway, as well as for the delivery of the subsea equipment for injecting captured CO2 into a reservoir for permanent storage. The Northern Lights project will initially include the capture of CO2 from Norwegian industrial capture sources.