Ammonia-fuelled CO2 carrier design planned

The main key design drivers are safe loading, transport, and offshore injection of CO2 with as low emissions as possible. The vessel will be specialised 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, and thrusters and propeller will be optimised 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. That is why this project is important,” 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.