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We anticipate many opportunities around alternative fuels to emerge over the next ten years
we’ ll expand to a wider area across the state. We will then transport liquified CO 2 over any navigable waterway to locations with the necessary infrastructure and regulatory support for permanent underground storage. We’ ve been building relationships over the last couple of years to identify and design a network of discharge storage facilities ahead of time. We’ ve partnered with a discharge terminal and storage facility on the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, for instance, which is adjacent to existing CO 2 infrastructure, both pipelines and sequestration sites. Moreover, we’ ve already identified that T-RICH’ s potential future throughput is as much as eight million metric tons per year given the available land area at the site.”
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Aptamus is also exploring onboard carbon capture and storage( OCCS) for its commercial tankers.“ We’ ve recently completed a study for the US Maritime Administration to identify what processes we’ d need to undertake to retrofit carbon capture equipment into existing tankers,” Jeffrey explains.“ We’ re also looking at alternative fuels to ensure we’ re embracing greener initiatives to steer the company to a more sustainable future, and to stay ahead of the International Maritime Organization’ s emission reduction requirements.”
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Kent elaborates on the process behind designing and developing these CO 2 carrying vessels.“ We initially set the target capacity for the vessels at 20,000 tons, as we wanted to drive maximum value and cost effectiveness,” he says.“ We now have structural engineering drawings and cargo handling documents that have been granted an Approval in Principle( AiP) by the American Bureau of Shipping for our articulated tug and barge system. We’ re focusing on an ATB vessel format because they have been very popular in transporting petroleum products in cross-Gulf trades for decades, where they offer several advantages over self-propelled tankers. One such advantage is that the tug could more easily be replaced with a zero-emissions tug once the necessary technology matures. It’ s not so easy to replace the engine room of a self-propelled tanker”
To end our conversation, Jeff turns his attention to what the future holds for OSG and Aptamus.“ We anticipate many opportunities around alternative fuels to emerge over the next ten years, with the goal of getting as close to zero emissions as possible,” he shares.“ I’ m sure there will be breakthroughs in technology
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