This picture exhibits Equinor's Johan Sverdrup oil subject within the North Sea west of Stavanger, Norway, on January 7, 2020.Carina Johansen | NTB
This picture exhibits Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup oil subject within the North Sea west of Stavanger, Norway, on January 7, 2020.
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The European Union has awarded 10 million euros ($11.05 million) in funding to a scheme that’s aiming to put in an ammonia-powered gas cell on a ship.
The beneficiary of the cash, the ShipFC undertaking, is a consortium of 14 companies and establishments co-ordinated by NCE Maritime CleanTech.
The undertaking will contain the modification of Eidesvik Offshore’s “Viking Vitality” ship. The vessel has been utilized by Norwegian vitality main Equinor for 17 years.
“Along with Equinor, we at the moment are launching a full-scale analysis undertaking to check a propulsion answer based mostly on gas cells operating on pure and emission-free ammonia,” Jan Fredrik Meling, who’s the CEO of Eidesvik Offshore, mentioned Thursday.
“The objective is to put in gas cell modules with a complete energy of two MW (megawatts) on board Viking Vitality in 2024,” he added. “This may make the vessel the world’s first emission-free provide vessel.”
In its personal assertion, Equinor defined that the vessel would take provides to installations positioned on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Vermund Hjelland, vp of know-how and growth at Eidesvik Offshore, mentioned a part of the testing would see the Viking Vitality use ammonia “in transit between harbour…