TGE Marine was awarded gas handling system for Northern Lights CO2 Carriers
TGE Marine Gas Engineering GmbH (TGE Marine) has earlier this year been awarded the engineering, procurement, construction and supervision (EPCS) contract for two CO₂ carriers that will transport liquid CO₂ to the new Northern Lights CO₂ storage facility.
Northern Lights is developing infrastructure to transport CO₂ by ship from industrial emitters in Norway and other European countries to a receiving terminal in western Norway for intermediate storage before being further transported by pipeline for permanent storage in a geological reservoir 2,600 metres under the seabed. The first two CO₂ carriers are being built for this purpose at Dalian Shipbuilding (DSIC) in China and are expected to be operational in 2024.
TGE Marine’s EPCS contract covers the complete CO₂ Gas Handling System as well as commissioning activities. The vessels will each have a capacity of 7,500 m³ of liquid CO₂.
TGE Marine is a first mover in the New Technology marine market. Since its establishment in 1980, TGE Marine has been on the forefront of several New Tech developments in the marine industry, from being the first company in the world to be contracted for the design, construction and commissioning of the largest ethylene/ethane carrier to delivering the world’s biggest LNG fuel gas system for a large crane vessel.
TGE Marine has decades of engineering expertise to be able to support these types of challenging new developments, whether it is in the field of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Floating LNG (FLNG) storage units or the use of LNG as fuel.
TGE Marine’s Sales Manager Johannes Dziuba comments, “We are both pleased and honoured to be working on these first-in-their-class ships and look forward to successfully deliver the best end result for the client to see these ships in operation.”
TGE Marine is the leading liquefied gas systems’ provider, specialising in the design and engineering of cargo handling systems and tanks for any type of liquefied gas carriers, bunker ships and Floating Storage & Regasification Units (FSRUs). TGE Marine also works under EPCS agreements on liquefied fuel gas systems for LNG, NH₃ and future fuels.
The company has designed and supplied more than 250 gas handling and storage systems for gas tankers, FSRUs and FPSOs in addition to fuel gas applications built at shipyards all over the world.
Our broad expertise in liquefied gas and cryogenic systems is based on more than 40 years of engineering experience in the marine industry. With our passion for innovation and our strategy that focuses on innovations for greener shipping, we are supporting the industry with technical solutions for a sustainable future, such as alternative fuels or CO₂ transport for CCS projects.
The head office in Bonn, Germany is a technical centre of excellence with core competencies in design and engineering, supported by its branch office in Shanghai.
This article was originally published on Marine & Industrial Report newspaper Vol 44 No.4 Issue last August 31, 2022.
