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January 06, 2026

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Endre Johansen, Corporate Communications AS
Telephone: +47 41 61 06 05
Email: endre.johansen@corpcom.no

About ABL Group ASA

ABL Group (OSE: ABL Group ASA – ticker code “ABL”) is a leading independent global consultancy delivering energy, marine, engineering and digital solutions to drive safety and sustainability in renewables, maritime and oil & gas sectors. The group has offices in 39 countries worldwide and operates under four brands: ABL, OWC, Longitude and AGR.

Equinor shines Northern Lights on ABL

Energy and marine consultancy ABL has been awarded a contract by Equinor to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services to the Northern Lights Phase 2 project in Norway.

The Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage facilities at Øygarden outside of Bergen
Photo (c): Torstein Lund Eik/Equinor

The Northern Lights project is part of the Norwegian full-scale CCS project Longship and based on Gassnova SF’s design basis with transport and storage of an annual volume of 1.5 Mt/y CO2. As part of the full-scale project, Northern Lights will receive liquid CO2 from customers with carbon capture and liquification facilities. Unallocated capacity will be made available for CO2 from other national and international capture sites.

Equinor and its partners in Northern Lights JV have completed the first phase of Northern Lights’ CO2 transport and storage infrastructure. With operations started in the summer of 2025, Northern Lights is now expanding to a minimum of five million tonnes annual storage capacity with a commercially based investment to meet growing demand from European industries.

Under the terms of the contract, ABL’s Norway operations, based in Stavanger, will provide marine verification and warranty services with site attendances and marine surveys to support the construction of the CO2 transport and storage expansion. ABL will also deliver technical document review and approval of all project and procedural documentation for warranted operations.

ABL’s Norwegian operation will commence its work scope early 2026. The Work will continue through to 2027.

“This is an important climate initiative that any industry player would be proud to be part of. Northern Lights is an important milestone in the energy transition of Norway and Europe and offers an open-source facility to decarbonise hard to abate industrial emitters.

“We have delivered marine warranty survey support to clients on the Norwegian continental shelf since the 1980s and look forward to applying this competence to this exciting project too.”

Subbi Nookala, Country Manager to ABL Norway

ABL is part of Oslo-listed global consultancy group ABL Group ASA.

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