What is the capacity and significance of Yara's newly launched CO2 capture plant at Sluiskil?

Yara's newly launched CO2 capture plant at its Sluiskil ammonia site in the Netherlands is Europe’s largest, designed to capture and liquefy up to 800,000 metric tons/year of CO₂ from ammonia production — shielding those volumes from EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) carbon taxation. It marks the first large-scale cross-border industrial carbon capture and storage (CCS) link in Europe, connecting the Dutch production hub directly to Norway’s Northern Lights subsea storage infrastructure, and is expected to permanently store approximately 12 million metric tons of CO₂ over a 15-year period.

How is the captured CO₂ transported and stored, and who operates the storage facility?

Captured CO₂ is liquefied and temporarily stored at Sluiskil before being shipped to Øygarden, Norway, where it is injected 2,600 meters beneath the North Sea seabed into subsurface reservoirs. The storage facility, Northern Lights, is a joint venture between Equinor ASA, TotalEnergies SE, and Shell PLC; it began commercial operations in 2025 and is expanding transport capacity — including larger CO₂ tankers from 2028 — to reach 5 million mt/y by its second phase.

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