Aker Solutions extends Northern Lights engagement

FORNEBU, April 2, 2025 – Equinor has awarded Aker Solutions a technical services contract for the second phase of the Northern Lights CCS project offshore Norway, Aker announced on Tuesday.

The scope of the work includes EPC of the onshore facilities and is scheduled to start in Q2 2025, with expected completion in 2028. Aker Solutions had already supplied subsea infrastructure for early well development during the project’s first phase.

The value of the contract was not disclosed, but Aker Solutions indicated it to lie between USD 143 million-239 million. The company also noted it would engage its facilities in Fornebu and Stord, Norway, and Mumbai, India, to carry out the new assignment.

 

“This contract is significant for Aker Solutions and aligns well with our strategy and ability to deliver standardised solutions for projects in the CCUS value chain. This is the fourth project with carbon dioxide storage solutions which we are executing, and this journey has enabled us to continuously reduce costs,” said Henrik Inadomi, executive vice-president for New Energies at Aker Solutions.

Northern Lights is a joint venture between Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies and part of the Longship project to establish a full-scale value chain for carbon dioxide CCS services. The project’s first phase is complete and already receiving carbon dioxide from Norwegian and European industrial emitters, and phase 2 will increase transport and storage capacity from 1.5 million tonnes per year (tpy) to a minimum of 5 million tpy.

In March 2025, the project partners made an FID to advance phase two of the Northern Lights project, following a commercial agreement with Stockholm Exergi to transport and store 900,000 tpy of biogenic carbon dioxide for 15 years.

Photo by Jonny Engelsvoll / © Equinor

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