Norsepower will supply Northern Lights, a joint venture between oil majors Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies, with wind propulsion technology to use on its third CO2 carrier.
The vessel will be built at the DSOC shipyard in Dalian, China, where the first two ships are currently under construction. It will share the same characteristics as its sister ships and have a cargo capacity of 7,500 m3. The three ships are the world’s largest dedicated CO2 ships, custom-built with pressurised cargo tanks for transportation of liquefied CO2.
The Northern Lights joint venture holds Norway’s inaugural CO₂ storage license on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, and it is a key component of the government’s Longship initiative and climate strategy.
The third Northern Lights 7,500m3 LCO2 carrier will also be powered by an LNG dual-fuel engine, in addition to a Norsepower Rotor SailTM to reduce its CO2 footprint.
Generally, amid growing interest in carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a promising green technology to address CO2 emissions from shipping, maritime transport is anticipated to dominate the CCS value chain, resulting in a rising demand for liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) carriers.
