Svanehøj pumps chosen for Northern Lights CO2 carriers

The Danish marine pump specialist Svanehøj has been awarded a contract to supply pump techniques for two LNG fuelled carriers that may transport liquid CO2 to the Northern Lights project’s storage amenities in Norway.
2021 has been a report year for Svanehøj.
Northern Lights is developing 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, before being transported by pipeline for everlasting storage in a geological reservoir 2,600 m beneath the seabed.
The two CO2 carriers are being built at Dalian Shipbuilding (DSIC) in China and are anticipated to be operational in 2024. ชนิดของpressuregauge may have a capacity of seven,500 m3 of liquid CO2. Svanehøj will ship two 15 m deepwell cargo pumps of for each ship. In this venture, Svanehøj’s multigas technology will be proven to its full potential, as the buyer wants the pumps to also be used to handling LPG pure gasoline. Over the years, Svanehøj has equipped cargo pump techniques to more than 1,100 LPG tankers all over the world.
“We have won the order by way of our long-standing associate, TGE Marine, which designs and delivers full cargo handling methods for the CO2 carriers,” stated Thomas Uhrenholt Nielsen, sales director, Cargo Gas at Svanehøj. “TGE has chosen our deepwell cargo fuel pumps, which they are very conversant in from numerous LPG tankers.”
Svanehøj has been supplying cargo pump methods for CO2 carriers since the late Nineteen Nineties.
“Thanks to our expertise from the relatively few CO2 ships constructed up to now, we’re part of the dialogue on several of the upcoming CCS (carbon seize & Storage) initiatives. CCS is a focus area in our business technique, and the order from TGE for Northern Lights is therefore of nice strategic importance. This could be an enormous marketplace for us inside the subsequent few years,” addedsaid Uhrenholt Nielsen.
Svanehøj began 2022 with a brand new “Powering a better future” technique and a target of doubling its turnover to DKK1 billion (approximately US$143 million) by the tip of 2026. The technique is primarily focused on supporting the transition to climate-neutral shipping, but additionally on investing in new business areas, together with CCS.
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