Norwegian fertilizer company Yara International has reportedly held an inauguration ceremony for Europe’s largest industrial carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at its ammonia and fertilizer complex in Sluiskil, Netherlands. The ceremony was attended by the prime ministers of Norway and the Netherlands, along with the EU’s climate commissioner.
The facility is designed to capture and liquefy carbon dioxide (CO2) generated at Yara’s Sluiskil plant, then transport it by sea via the Northern Lights project to a permanent storage site approximately 2.6 kilometers below the seabed on the Norwegian continental shelf. It has been introduced as the first fully completed cross-border CCS value chain.
The facility’s maximum annual capture capacity is 800,000 tonnes, with a target of storing roughly 12 million tonnes of CO2 cumulatively over the next 15 years. The inauguration ceremony was held on September 7, 2026.
Ammonia and fertilizer production is one of the representative chemical processes that emits large volumes of CO2, and this facility is regarded as a symbol of the decarbonization trend within Europe’s fertilizer industry.
The launch of an operational cross-border CCS value chain is expected to serve as a reference model that could encourage the adoption of carbon capture facilities at other European chemical and fertilizer complexes. This is also seen as likely to contribute to growth in the market for CCS-related maritime transport and storage infrastructure.
Points to watch include whether the facility meets its capture and storage targets once fully operational, and whether this model spreads to other chemical complexes across Europe.