Yara: Sluiskil start-up “this summer”

CCS-based ammonia production approaches in Europe

Click to expand. Site overview for the Sluiskil CCS project. From CCS Sluiskil Factsheet, Yara (Oct 2025).

Europe’s largest CCS project will capture and liquefy up to 800,000 tons of CO₂ every year from ammonia production at Yara’s Sluiskil plant in the Netherlands. The liquefied CO₂ will then be transported by ship to the Northern Lights sequestration site for safe and permanent storage 2.6 kilometers beneath the seabed on the Norwegian continental shelf. This represents the world’s first full‑scale, cross‑border CCS value chain. This month, the CO₂ carrier Northern Phoenix arrived at Sluiskil for testing and preparations ahead of CCS start‑up this summer, including a test CO₂ transfer with the vessel’s loading arm.

CCS enables rapid decarbonization. To secure Europe’s industrial competitiveness and reach the climate targets, we must urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yara’s CCS project in Sluiskil will deliver lower-carbon fertilizer and low-carbon ammonia for energy, shipping and industrial applications.

Svein Tore Holsether , CEO Yara International, quoted in “Carbon Capture and Storage in action: Yara’s project in Sluiskil”, accessed 30 Mar 2026