Breeze Ship Design, together with Equinor, will develop an ammonia-fueled ship design concept for a CO2 carrier for direct offshore injection.
The vessel will be specialized for its trade with a cargo capacity of approximately 40.000 tonnes of CO2. The trading area will be North Europe/Scandinavia with discharge locations in the North Sea Area.
Propulsion will be based on ammonia dual fuel, where thrusters and propeller configuration will be optimized for harsh weather connection and disconnection to an offshore STL buoy, and for continuous high pressure CO2 injection to subsea well deformations.
Equinor believes that the direct injection concept is an interesting way to implement ship-based transport and injection solutions for CO2. We need to make sure the technical risks are reduced to an acceptable level and that the business case is sound
said Elisabeth Birkeland, VP for Carbon capture and storage solutions in Equinor.
Breeze Ship Design is currently involved in 10-15 zero/low emission ship design projects with dual fuel propulsion systems based on ammonia, hydrogen, methanol or other biofuels, in combination with novel combustion engines and fuel cell technology.
