The Danish aquatic pumps professional Svaneh øj will provide pump systems for 2 carbon dioxide service providers that will certainly carry fluid carbon dioxide to the Northern Lights storage space centers in Norway.
Northern Lights, the JV had by Equinior, Shell, and also TotalEnergies, is creating framework to carry carbon dioxide from commercial emitters in Norway and also various other European nations by ship to an obtaining terminal in western Norway for intermediate storage space, prior to being delivered by pipe for long-term storage space in a geological tank 2,600 meters under the seabed.
In October 2024, Chinese shipbuilderDalian Shipbuilding Industry Co won an agreement to construct 2 carbon dioxide service providers for the carbon capture and also storage space job. The 2 carbon dioxide service providers will certainly each have a freight dimension of 7,500 m3 and also a size of 130 meters.
The 2 vessels, which are developed to carry fluid carbon dioxide with purpose-built pressurized freight storage tanks, are anticipated to be prepared for distribution by mid-2024. Danish provider Svaneh øj has actually currently been selected as the provider of the pump systems that will certainly take care of the fluid carbon dioxide. Svaneh øj will certainly provide 2 deepwell freight pumps of 15 meters for each and every ship. 
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“In this project, Svanehøj’s multigas technology will be shown to its full potential, as the customer wants the pumps to also be used for handling LPG natural gas. Over the years, Svanehøj has supplied cargo pump systems to more than 1,100 LPG tankers around the world,” Svaneh øj stated.
“We have won the order through our long-standing partner, TGE Marine, which designs and delivers complete Cargo Handling Systems for the CO2 carriers. TGE has chosen our deepwell cargo gas pumps, which they are very familiar with from numerous LPG tankers”, says Thomas Uhrenholt Nielsen, Sales Director, Cargo Gas at Svanehøj.
Svanehøj cited the Global CCS Institute’s report “Global status of CCS 2021”, according to which the pipeline of CCS projects grew by 48% from 2020 to 2021. At the end of 2021, there were 35 projects under development in Europe alone.
“We are as a result seeing a boosting concentrate on firms experienced in managing fluid carbon dioxide. Svaneh øj includes plainly right here, as the business has actually been providing freight pump systems for carbon dioxide service providers considering that the late 1990s,” the company said.
“Thanks to our experience from the reasonably couple of carbon dioxide ships constructed thus far, we become part of the discussion on numerous of the upcoming CCS tasks. CCS is an emphasis location in our organization technique, and also the order from TGE for Northern Lights is as a result of fantastic calculated significance. This might be a huge market for us within the following couple of years”, states Thomas Uhrenholt Nielsen.
