The Northern Lights carbon transport and storage project has crossed a major threshold after its developers – Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies – issued the first certificates verifying permanent CO2 storage at the offshore Aurora reservoir.

The documentation confirms that captured carbon has been shipped, piped and injected into a geological formation 2,600 meters (8530 feet) beneath the North Sea, establishing a verified chain of custody for stored emissions.

The certificates mark the first time Northern Lights has formally demonstrated that its end-to-end infrastructure is operating as designed. They track the volumes moved by vessel and subsea pipeline before injection, offering independent proof of what has been sequestered – an important requirement for future commercial contracts and regulatory compliance.

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