Svanehøj is supplying the cargo pump system for a third Northern Lights LCO2 carrier.
Last year, the Danish gas equipment specialist secured cargo pump orders for Northern Lights’ first two LCO2 carriers. The vessels are being built at Dalian Shipbuilding Offshore (DSOC) in China. The three ships are the world’s largest of their kind, and this latest order represents a significant milestone for Svanehøj’s ambitions in carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Svanehøj supplied its first CO2 pump system for an LCO2 carrier in the 1990s. The company has identified CCS as a future growth segment, so the Northern Lights project is of great strategic importance.
Northern Lights is developing the world’s first open-source CO2 transport and storage infrastructure in Norway. The Northern Lights LCO2 carriers will each have a cargo capacity of 7,500 m3, custom-built with pressurised cargo tanks for transporting liquefied CO2. Svanehøj will deliver two deepwell CO2 cargo pumps of 15 metres for each ship. Once operational, the ships will transport CO2 from industrial emitters in Norway and other European countries to a receiving terminal in western Norway for intermediate storage, before being transported by pipeline for permanent storage in a geological reservoir 2,600 metres under the seabed.