The Danish marine pump specialist Svanehøj has been awarded a contract to provide pump techniques for two LNG fuelled carriers that may transport liquid CO2 to the Northern Lights project’s storage services in Norway.
2021 has been a record year for Svanehøj.
Northern Lights is creating infrastructure to move CO2 from industrial emitters in Norway and different European nations by ship to a receiving terminal in western Norway for intermediate storage, earlier than being transported by pipeline for everlasting storage in a geological reservoir 2,600 m beneath the seabed.
Case study are being constructed at Dalian Shipbuilding (DSIC) in China and are expected to be operational in 2024. Both vessels could have a capacity of 7,500 m3 of liquid CO2. Svanehøj will deliver two 15 m deepwell cargo pumps of for each ship. In this venture, Svanehøj’s multigas know-how might be proven to its full potential, as the buyer needs the pumps to also be used to dealing with LPG natural gas. Over the years, Svanehøj has provided cargo pump systems to greater than 1,100 LPG tankers all over the world.
“We have gained the order through our long-standing partner, TGE Marine, which designs and delivers complete cargo dealing with techniques for the CO2 carriers,” mentioned Thomas Uhrenholt Nielsen, gross sales director, Cargo Gas at Svanehøj. “TGE has chosen our deepwell cargo fuel pumps, which they’re very conversant in from quite a few LPG tankers.”
Svanehøj has been supplying cargo pump systems for CO2 carriers because the late Nineteen Nineties.
“Thanks to our experience from the comparatively few CO2 ships constructed so far, we’re a part of the dialogue on a number of of the upcoming CCS (carbon capture & Storage) projects. CCS is a spotlight space in our enterprise technique, and the order from TGE for Northern Lights is subsequently of great strategic importance. This might be an enormous marketplace for us throughout the next few years,” addedsaid Uhrenholt Nielsen.
Svanehøj began 2022 with a brand new “Powering a greater future” strategy and a target of doubling its turnover to DKK1 billion (approximately US$143 million) by the top of 2026. The strategy is primarily centered on supporting the transition to climate-neutral shipping, but additionally on investing in new enterprise areas, including CCS.
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