The Northern Lights carbon capture and storage joint venture has placed an order for its third ship that will be used to transport captured CO2 in liquified form.
The shipbuilding contract was signed with Dalian Shipbuilding Offshore Co. in Dalian, China, where the first two ships are currently under construction. The latest newbuild will be built to similar specs with a cargo capacity of 7,500 m3 and 130-meters in length. The ships are designed to run on dual-fuel LNG, with a wind-assisted propulsion system and air lubrication to reduce carbon intensity by around 34% compared to conventional systems.
The three sister ships will become the world’s largest dedicated CO2 ships, custom-built with pressurized cargo tanks for transportation of liquefied CO2. The tanks will keep the LCO2 at 15 bar(g) of pressure and a temperature of -26°C.
The first two ships, which were ordered in…
