A consortium of global energy and shipping organisations announced on Wednesday that they will start a project to test a carbon capture system onboard an oil tanker for the next two years.
The project is on board a medium-range tanker owned by Stena Bulk and is expected to capture 30 percent of carbon dioxide per hour, or about 1,000 kilogramme per hour, the companies said in a joint press release on the sidelines of the Singapore International Bunkering Conference and Exhibition SIBCON 2022.
It is being carried out by the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation GCMD in Singapore, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative OGCI Stena Bulk, the American Bureau of Shipping, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO and Deltamarin, which provides ship services for marine and offshore industries.
This comes as shipping and energy companies are facing increasing pressure to meet net-zero emissions by the year 2050.
GCMD believes shipboard carbon capture is one of the Mid-term solutions needed to help the maritime sector decarbonise, said Lynn Loo, CEO of the GCMD.
The companies said that the first phase of the project will involve conceptual design and front-end engineering design study FEED of the carbon capture system, which will be completed in the first quarter of 2023.
They said that this will be followed by the engineering, procurement and construction of a prototype shipboard carbon capture system and onshore commissioning.
The companies said that the last phase of the project will be focusing on integrating the carbon capture system with the tanker and conducting sea trials.