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Carbon Dioxide Shipping

Colin Trundley - Operations Director CO2 - NIPPON GASES

Carbon Capture and Storage CCS is widely accepted as a key element in the strategy for decarbonisation of Industry. Captured CO2 will be delivered to sequestration sites in different conditions and by different modes of transport. Large scale marine shipping of CO2 would enable transportation of captured CO2 from remote sites or local hubs to more distant sequestration sites.
Nippon Gases own and operate 75% of the existing global CO2 marine shipping capacity and undertook the feasibility studies that paved the way for the most developed of the current CCS Shipping projects.
The ships and cargoes of a future CCS shipping industry will be on a far greater scale than the business operated by Nippon Gases. However the fundamental principles and constraints of carbon dioxide operations remain the same, with the need to “scale-up” providing further challenges.
Nippon Gases’ core business is not in the large scale transportation of captured CO2, rather it is to support customers with expertise and assets that can assist their transition to de-carbonisation.
The talk will outline the basic operational principles of CO2 shipping and describe the options that are being considered for the future. Some examples of recent and live projects will illustrate the current state of the industry and expectation of developments.

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