ABS launches requirements for onboard carbon capture

Working with shipyards, ship owners and operators, ABS has developed an industry-leading set of requirements to guide the industry in the application of carbon capture technology at sea. Experience and insight derived from pioneering carbon capture projects with stakeholders such as shipyards, ship owners and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have informed development of the ABS

Magseis Renewables bags carbon capture contract

Magseis Renewables, a subsidiary of Norwegian ocean bottom seismic (OBS) technology and services provider Magseis Fairfield, has won a data acquisition contract for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) monitoring project in the North Sea. No further details have been disclosed, except that the survey would start in the fourth quarter of this year, utilising

Stena Bulk joins GCMD, and OGCI for shipboard carbon capture

The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD), the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) and Stena Bulk today initiated the first stage of a two-year, three-phase project to demonstrate shipboard carbon capture at scale. Together with Alfa Laval, the American Bureau of Shipping, Deltamarin and TNO, the consortium will investigate onboard capture and storage, as

HMM and Panasia to work together for developing onboard carbon capture

Flagship carrier HMM has signed a memorandum of understanding with compatriot Panasia to collaborate on developing onboard carbon capture systems. The two will start by carrying out a feasibility study before likely testing a prototype on some of HMM’s ships. HMM aims to reach net-zero carbon emissions across its entire fleet by 2050 and is

Tankers developed with carbon capture systems

Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co (DSIC), a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) and Cosco Shipping Energy Transportation (CSET), the tanker operation unit of Cosco Shipping Group, have developed two types of tankers equipped with carbon capture and storage systems. The vessels’ conceptual design involved a very large crude carrier (VLCC) and a suezmax, which

Tata Chemicals opens the first CCU plant in UK

Tata Chemicals Europe has officially opened the UK’s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant. The plant captures 40,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year – the equivalent to taking over 20,000 cars off the roads and reduces TCE’s carbon emissions by more than 10%. The project will help unlock the future of

X-Press Feeders to use Value Maritime’s carbon capture systems

Singapore-based X-Press Feeders has agreed to use Value Maritime’s carbon capture feature and clean-loop systems. The systems will be equipped onboard two feeder boxships the 2007-built Atlantis A and the 2010-built X-Press Elbe. The Rotterdam-based Value Maritime, which will also fit Eastern Pacific Shipping’s two MR tankers with onboard carbon capture tech, has won a

PaxOcean to work with NTU on carbon capture technologies

PaxOcean, one of Kuok Singapore Limited’s (KSL) maritime group businesses, will be working with Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) on a 30-month project to develop shipboard post-combustion carbon capture technologies.  The project will be led by Professor Wang Xin, chair of the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at NTU. The project, called “Application of

First carbon capture technology to be installed on MR tankers

Eastern Pacific Shipping has agreed with Rotterdam-based Value Maritime to install carbon capture and filtering systems on MR tankers Pacific Cobalt and Pacific Gold. As part of the agreement three more vessels are scheduled to be equipped with same technology in future. The system installation on Pacific Cobalt, is scheduled to be completed by the

SK E&S joins world’s largest carbon capture project

SK E&S, an energy company affiliated with South Korea’s SK Group, will join what would be the world’s largest carbon capture project by spending $110 million to acquire a 10 percent stake in U.S. project leader Summit Carbon Solutions, a business platform that addresses the global challenge of decarbonization. Summit’s project is aimed at capturing