Liquefied CO2 carrier delivered to pioneering Carbon Capture and Storage project in Norway

‘K” LINE Group reports that newly built liquefied CO2 carrier ‘Northern Pathfinder’ was handed over to the Norway’s Northern Lights joint venture at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co in late Deember.

The vessel is the second liquefied CO2 carrier to be engaged in Northern Lights, the world’s first full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. Like ‘Northern Pioneer’, the first carrier completed in November 2024, the vessel will be managed by “K” LINE LNG Shipping (UK) based in London.

Once in Norway, both vessels will start mechanical commissioning activities at the carbon capture facility in Brevik and the receiving terminal in Øygarden.

En route to Norway, the vessel was supplied with LNG fuel by LNG bunkering vessel ‘FueLNG Bellina’, also managed by the “K” LINE Group, at Singapore bunker hub in mid-January.

The “K” LINE Group says it intends to help drive the CCS business and leverage the knowledge gained from the operation of liquefied CO2 carriers in future business development, in accordance with its long-term guidelines concerning the environment.