The Danish marine pump specialist Svanehøj has been awarded a contract to supply pump methods for 2 LNG fuelled carriers that will transport liquid CO2 to the Northern Lights project’s storage facilities in Norway.
2021 has been a record 12 months for Svanehøj.
Northern Lights is growing infrastructure to move CO2 from industrial emitters in Norway and other European nations by ship to a receiving terminal in western Norway for intermediate storage, before being transported by pipeline for permanent storage in a geological reservoir 2,600 m underneath the seabed.
The two CO2 carriers are being built at Dalian Shipbuilding (DSIC) in China and are expected to be operational in 2024. Both vessels may have a capability of seven,500 m3 of liquid CO2. Svanehøj will ship เพรสเชอร์เกจ of for each ship. In this project, Svanehøj’s multigas expertise will be proven to its full potential, as the buyer needs the pumps to even be used to dealing with LPG pure gasoline. Over the years, Svanehøj has equipped cargo pump systems to more than 1,one hundred LPG tankers all over the world.
“We have gained the order through our long-standing partner, TGE Marine, which designs and delivers full cargo handling techniques for the CO2 carriers,” mentioned Thomas Uhrenholt Nielsen, gross sales director, Cargo Gas at Svanehøj. “TGE has chosen เพรสเชอร์เกจ , which they are very familiar with from numerous LPG tankers.”
Svanehøj has been supplying cargo pump techniques for CO2 carriers for the rationale that late 1990s.
“Thanks to our expertise from the comparatively few CO2 ships constructed so far, we’re part of the dialogue on several of the upcoming CCS (carbon capture & Storage) projects. CCS is a spotlight space in our business technique, and the order from TGE for Northern Lights is therefore of nice strategic importance. This might be an enormous marketplace for us within the subsequent few years,” addedsaid Uhrenholt Nielsen.
Svanehøj started 2022 with a model new “Powering a greater future” technique and a goal of doubling its turnover to DKK1 billion (approximately US$143 million) by the tip of 2026. The strategy is primarily centered on supporting the transition to climate-neutral shipping, but additionally on investing in new business areas, including CCS.
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