The Longship Project is Ready for Operation
News story | Date: 10/06/2025 | Ministry of Energy
Norway’s largest climate initiative and Europe’s first complete value chain for carbon management, Longship, is now ready for operation. This milestone will be marked with events in Oslo and Brevik on 17 and 18 June 2025.
Press meeting on the launch of Longship
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The Longship project represents a major pioneering effort in climate technology. On Tuesday 17 June, an international high-level conference on carbon management will take place at the Oslo Opera House.
On Wednesday 18 June, the world’s first carbon capture facility in the cement industry will be inaugurated with a formal ceremony at Heidelberg Materials’ cement plant in Brevik. Crown Prince Haakon will attend both days.
CCS conference 2025
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You can find the program for the events here:
Press information is available here:
The press conference and conference will be recorded by the Norwegian Central Government ICT Organisation (DIO) and may be watched live from this site.
Videos may also be downloaded from this site afterwards. DIO will distribute a publishing point to media outlets that wish to send the press conference live. DIO can be reached by telephone at +47 22 24 88 45 or by email at dio-videoproduksjon@dio.dep.no.
Media outlets that would like to embed the webcast can find the embed code by clicking the ‘share video’ button in the video player.