Every big transition needs a strong backbone
— and that’s what we’re building

A large scale pipeline infrastructure for CO₂ transport
in and around the Baltic Sea.

Highway58 - A common and shared infrastructure for CCUS, ensuring competitiveness and enabling decarbonisation as well as new business models for large industries in the countries around the Baltic Sea.

Our project - Highway58

Building the CO₂ transport backbone for the Baltic Sea region

Highway58 is a shared cross-border CO₂ transport network across the Baltic Sea and Nordic region. This infrastructure will enable low-cost carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), helping industries cut emissions, supporting development of new low-carbon industries and driving the region's and Europe's transition to a low carbon future.

Phase 1 of Highway58 will include an offshore pipeline backbone of more than 1,000 km, with the capacity to transport around 20 million tonnes of CO₂ per year. The goal is for Phase 1 to be operational in the early 2030s, subject to customer commitment and regulatory approvals.

Unlocking CCS deployment around the Baltic Sea

Industries around the Baltic Sea emit over 100 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. Many of these emissions cannot be abated without carbon capture and storage. By providing shared, cost-efficient transport infrastructure, Highway58 will reduce costs and risks, making CCS projects possible that would otherwise not happen.

Enabling carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at scale

The Nordic region has exceptional potential for biogenic CO₂ capture and permanent storage, enabling durable carbon dioxide removals (CDR). According to the Nordic Carbon Removal Association (NCRA), the Nordics could deliver up to 160 MtCO₂ of removals per year by 2050, with an annual economic contribution to GDP of €17 billion and 148,000 jobs.

Today, insufficient CO₂ transport and storage infrastructure is a key bottleneck for scaling CDR. Highway58 is designed to remove this constraint, enabling the Baltic Sea region to play a central role in a future Nordic and European CDR market.

Supporting e-Fuels and CO₂-based value chains

Access to large volumes of biogenic CO₂ is essential for producing e-Fuels and other substitution products.

Demand for e-Fuels is set to grow rapidly under EU climate policies and multiple e-Fuel projects are under development in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Highway58 will provide the reliable CO₂ transport infrastructure needed to scale this industry, supporting the emergence of the Nordic–Baltic region as a hub for e-Fuels.

Built on research, experience and system understanding

Highway58 is grounded in decades of research, system analysis and practical experience from carbon capture and storage as well as large-scale energy infrastructure projects.

The project combines scientific knowledge, industrial know-how and collaboration with policymakers, allowing for a system-level approach which is essential for designing infrastructure that is technically robust, commercially viable, and scalable across borders.

Realizing the vision of a Nordic CCS pioneer

On a summer evening in 1986, Pipe58 co-founder Erik Lindeberg had invited his scientist colleague Torleif Holt to his cabin in Sweden, where they envisioned something revolutionary: storing CO₂ beneath the seabed off the coast of Norway as a climate mitigation strategy. This marked the beginning of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Europe and has inspired decades of progress.

Thirty-five years later, in 2021, Erik conceived another groundbreaking idea - CO₂ transportation with a pipeline network in the Baltic Sea. Pipe58 has since then moved the project from research through a feasibility study establishing connections with major emitters and creating a well-defined concept for the pipeline routing and sizing.

Partnership - Key to success

Partnerships are crucial to bring large infrastructure projects like Highway58 forward, and Pipe58 is proud to announce its partnership with experienced project developer Progressive Energy Ltd (UK), bringing valueable skills and experience from their leading roles in the HyNet North West and Peak Cluster initiatives in the UK.

Read the full press release here → Press release 2026-01-27