Europe’s largest commercial carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has begun operations at Yara’s Sluiskil ammonia and fertilizer facility in the Netherlands. The project was officially inaugurated on September 7 and is designed to capture and liquefy up to 800,000 tons of CO₂ per year from ammonia production.

The captured CO₂ will be transported by ship from the Netherlands to Norway, where it will be permanently stored through the Northern Lights infrastructure beneath the North Sea. The Norwegian government said the project represents the first international CO₂ delivery under its Longship carbon capture and storage initiative.

The project follows cooperation established under the EU-Norway Green Alliance signed in 2023. Over a 15-year period, approximately 12 million tons of CO₂ from Yara Sluiskil are expected to be captured and stored.

Northern Lights provides the cross-border transport and storage infrastructure for the project, enabling captured CO₂ from industrial facilities in Europe to be shipped to Norway for permanent geological storage.