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Equinor's Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project offers insights for establishing multi-country carbon hubs in India and Southeast Asia, according to Desikan Sundararajan, vice-president and Country Manager for Singapore and India. The Northern Lights initiative, designed as a collaborative infrastructure, addresses the challenge of managing captured carbon dioxide by enabling its transport via ships for permanent underground storage, with long-term monitoring to ensure sequestration safety.

Key to this model is its transparency, as extensive project data has been made publicly available, fulfilling government funding requirements and creating a knowledge base for potential replication. There is strong interest from Indian and regional stakeholders in collaboration, although broader deployment will depend on the establishment of clear policy frameworks.