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NOS Nova AS (formerly Horisont Energi AS) is a Norwegian carbontech company developing carbon capture and storage infrastructure for industrial emitters. The company operates a patent-pending carbontech platform that underpins two flagship physical infrastructure projects: the Gismarvik CO2 hub, a CO2 terminal and storage facility positioned to serve Norwegian industries, and the Barents Blue project, which reached a commercial progress milestone in February 2025. The firm is headquartered in Sandnes, Norway, and was acquired by NOS Group as its new main owner in August 2025, followed by the appointment of a new CEO, the acquisition of NOS Technology AS in November 2025, and a corporate rebrand to NOS Nova AS in December 2025.

The company's business model is B2B enterprise, providing carbon storage solutions on what is described as a subscription/recurring basis to Norwegian industrial customers needing to meet emissions reduction and carbon neutrality obligations. Go-to-market is direct enterprise sales targeting Norwegian and, by stated intent, broader European industrial accounts, supported by an investor relations portal, newsletter, LinkedIn presence, and project-page-driven content marketing. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, consistent with large industrial contracts.

The corporate structure has been substantially reshaped in 2025. NOS Group, a strategic operating parent, holds the controlling stake. NOS Technology AS is a wholly-owned subsidiary focused on technology operations, while Horisont Ammoniakk AS was spun off in June 2025 to separate ammonia production from the core carbon storage business. The company is privately held, with no public ticker, no disclosed external institutional investors, and no funding rounds on record in the available data.

Name

Horisont energi

Legal name

NOS Nova AS

Website

https://horisontenergi.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

NOS Nova AS (formerly Horisont Energi AS) is a Norwegian carbontech company developing carbon capture and storage infrastructure — including the Gismarvik CO2 hub and Barents Blue project — for Norwegian and European industrial emitters seeking carbon neutrality compliance.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Carbon Capture and Storage

akta.pro primary industry

Carbon Removal Project Development, Financing & Offtake (Developers, Aggregators, Buyers Clubs) (EUABAFAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

CO₂ Storage Site Development & Permitting (Characterization, Licensing, Stakeholder Engagement) (EUABAHAF)

Keywords

• Carbon capture storage
• Carbon storage solutions
• CO2 terminal infrastructure
• Clean energy services
• Carbontech technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Sandnes

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Carbon Storage Solutions: Providing competitive carbon storage solutions to Norwegian and European industries as a service model supporting carbon neutrality goals

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Horisont Energi (now NOS Nova AS) develops and operates carbon capture and storage infrastructure for industrial customers. Its primary offering is competitive carbon storage services delivered through projects such as the Gismarvik CO2 hub and the Barents Blue project, supported by a proprietary patent-pending carbontech technology platform.

Product overview

NOS Nova AS (formerly Horisont Energi AS) is a Norwegian clean energy company offering carbon storage solutions. The portfolio consists of the Gismarvik CO2 hub (a CO2 terminal and storage facility), the core NOS Nova carbontech platform, and the Barents Blue project. The company has expanded through the acquisition of NOS Technology AS and operates with patent-pending carbontech technology to bridge the gap to a carbon neutral future.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Gismarvik CO2 hub A CO2 terminal and hub project that provides competitive carbon storage solutions, working closely with Norwegian industries to support Norway and Europe on their path to carbon neutrality.
• NOS Nova carbontech platform The company's main carbontech platform offering patent-pending technology for carbon management, aimed at accelerating the transition to a carbon neutral future.
• Carbon storage solutions Competitive carbon storage solutions developed to participate in the new carbon market, supporting Norwegian industries and Europe's path to carbon neutrality.
• Barents Blue project A major carbon storage project with commercial progress, part of the company's portfolio of clean energy initiatives.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Heidelberg Materials: Heidelberg Materials is a global cement and building materials company actively deploying CCS at its Brevik plant in Norway and other European facilities. It is comparable as a heavy industrial emitter investing in proprietary CCS capture and storage infrastructure, representing both a potential customer of and a competing developer of Norwegian/European CCS capacity.
• 1PointFive (Occidental): 1PointFive is Occidental Petroleum's carbon management subsidiary developing large-scale DAC and CCUS infrastructure. It is a broad incumbent comparable because it operates at substantially greater scale with extensive capital backing, and sells carbon removal and storage services to industrial buyers in a comparable customer-use-case framework.

Direct peers

• Aker Carbon Capture: Aker Carbon Capture is a Norwegian-headquartered pure-play carbon capture technology company offering amine-based capture systems and operational services to industrial emitters. It is a direct competitor to NOS Nova in serving Norwegian and European industrial customers seeking CCS solutions, and is the most relevant comparable given shared Norwegian roots, industrial-customer focus, and project-development orientation.
• Northern Lights JV: Northern Lights is a Norwegian CCS joint venture (Equinor, Shell, TotalEnergies) developing CO2 transport and storage infrastructure at Øygarden, Norway. It is a direct competitor for European industrial offtake agreements and provides comparable transport-and-storage-as-a-service infrastructure in the same Norwegian/European market NOS Nova targets with its Gismarvik CO2 hub.
• Climeworks: Climeworks is a Swiss direct air capture (DAC) company developing modular DAC technology for carbon removal services sold to corporate and industrial buyers. It is directly comparable as a Europe-based carbontech platform with proprietary capture technology selling storage/removal as a service, though its DAC approach differs from NOS Nova's industrial-point-source storage focus.
• Carbfix: Carbfix is an Icelandic carbon capture and mineral storage company that dissolves CO2 into water and mineralises it in basalt formations. It is directly comparable as a European proprietary-technology CCS operator commercialising storage services, sharing the project-developer-plus-technology-platform structure that NOS Nova has built around the Gismarvik and Barents Blue projects.

Regional players

• Stockholm Exergi: Stockholm Exergi is a Swedish district heating and electricity provider developing the BECCS Stockholm project to capture and store biogenic CO2 from a biomass-fired CHP plant. It is a regional comparable as a Nordic utility advancing large-scale CCS infrastructure under EU/Swedish decarbonisation policy, competing for the same European storage offtake ecosystem NOS Nova targets.

Emerging players

• CarbonCure Technologies: CarbonCure is a Canadian carbontech company that injects captured CO2 into concrete during production to reduce cement's carbon footprint. It is an emerging player comparable in that it sells proprietary carbon-capture technology as a service to industrial customers, though its end-application (concrete mineralisation) differs from NOS Nova's geological storage focus.
• 44.01: 44.01 is an Oman-based carbon removal company commercialising mineralisation of CO2 in peridotite formations, selling carbon removal as a service to corporate buyers. It is an emerging player comparable to NOS Nova in combining a proprietary capture/storage technology with project development and offtake-driven service revenue in the voluntary and compliance carbon market.

Others

• CCS Norway / Norwegian CCS Research Centre: CCS Norway is a research and industry coordination centre supporting the development of CCS value chains in Norway. It is comparable as an ecosystem enabler relevant to NOS Nova's technology and project development pathway, providing regulatory, technical, and partner-ecosystem context for Norwegian CCS deployment, though it is not a commercial competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/horisontenergi
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/horisontenergi

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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