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TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell launch second

phase of Northern Lights CCS project in Norway

French energy major TotalEnergies sels – which are all expected to be com-
and its partners, Norwegian energy pleted for a start-up by the second half
company Equinor and British oil and of 2028. This FID of this second phase
gas giant Shell, have announced the follows the signing of a 15-year commer-
Final Investment Decision (FID) of cial agreement between Northern Lights
the second phase of the Northern Lights and the Swedish district energy provider, PRODUCT RANGE
development, which will increase the Stockholm Exergi, for the cross-border
project transport and storage capacity transport and storage of 900,000 tons of
from 1.5-million to more than 5-million biogenic CO emissions annually, start-
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tons of CO per year from 2028. ing in 2028. Stockholm Exergi is the
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2,600 metres below the seabed, off the 5th company to commit with Northern
The fi rst phase of Northern Lights coast of Øygarden, western Norway. Lights for transport and storage of its
has been completed and ready to receive CO emissions, after Heidelberg Mate-
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CO from industrial emitters. Operations The second phase represents an in- rials and Celsio in Norway, Yara in the
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are expected to start after June this year, vestment of around 700-mn and lever- Netherlands and Ørsted in Denmark. In
with the fi rst CO transportation by ship ages existing onshore and offshore in- addition, Northern Lights is in advanced
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from Heidelberg Materials’ cement fac- frastructures. This expansion includes discussions with several large European
tory in Brevik, Norway and its injection new onshore storage tanks, pumps, a industrial customers to market the
and permanent storage into a reservoir jetty, injection wells and transport ves- remaining storage capacity.

Vynova Alkoxides awards engineering contract

for new alcoholates plant

Vynova Alkoxides GmbH, part of the
International Chemical Investors Group
(ICIG), has kicked off the construction
activities for its new alcoholates plant
at the Chemiepark Lülsdorf GmbH site
in Lülsdorf, Germany. To this end, the
contract for basic engineering has been
awarded to an external engineering com-
pany with the aim of fi nalising the basic
design before the end of this year.

Alcoholates, also known as alk- duced sodium and potassium alcoho- in January 2024 to operate the newly
oxides, are used in a variety of appli- lates exclusively for Evonik through its planned alcoholates plant. “The contract
cations, but predominantly in the subsidiary Lülsdorf Functional Solu- that has now been awarded is an impor-
production of biodiesel. tions GmbH (LFS). However, the LFS tant step towards securing the planned
alcoholate production facilities based commissioning of the plant in autumn
The company plans to invest in on mercury electrolysis technology is 2027 and ensuring that the supply of alco-
plants for the production of sodium and required by regulatory requirements to holates from Lülsdorf to the market can
potassium methylate as well as sodium be closed at the end of 2027. continue even after the current mercury
ethylate. ICIG had acquired the Lüls- electrolysis-based production has been
dorf site from Evonik in 2023 and pro- Vynova Alkoxides was founded discontinued,” the company informed.

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