What is the scale and significance of Yara's newly activated carbon capture project in Europe?

Yara has officially activated Europe's largest operational industrial carbon capture facility at its Sluiskil ammonia fertilizer plant in the Netherlands. This project represents the world's first fully integrated cross-border CO₂ capture, transport, and permanent storage value chain. With a total investment of approximately €200 million, it has an annual capture capacity of 800,000 tonnes of CO₂—primarily from ammonia production process emissions—and accounts for about 0.5% of the Netherlands' total national CO₂ emissions, equivalent to removing emissions from roughly 400,000 gasoline-powered cars per year.

How is the captured CO₂ transported and permanently stored, and what is the project's long-term sequestration target?

The captured CO₂ is liquefied and shipped via dedicated vessels operated by Norway’s Northern Lights to the Øygarden receiving terminal, then injected permanently into saline aquifers located 2,600 meters below the seabed in the North Sea. Over its planned 15-year operational lifetime, the project is expected to store approximately 12 million tonnes of CO₂ in total.

Yara Activates Europe's Largest Industrial Carbon Capture Project

Sep 11, 2026

Yara International has activated Europe's largest operational carbon capture facility at its Dutch ammonia plant, establishing a global first for a complete cross-border CO2 transport and storage value chain.

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