Global underground CO₂ storage reaches more than 420 million tonnes

The Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has successfully stored its first CO₂ volumes, into the Aurora reservoir 2,600 meters below the seabed of the Norwegian North Sea.

Global geological CO₂ storage has reached a total of 421.7 million tonnes, with a record 43.6 million tonnes stored in 2024, a new report from the London Register of Subsurface CO₂ Storage, led by researchers at Imperial College London, has found. Th...

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