Golden Energy Offshore partners hydrogen company to fuel its future fleet

Norwegian shipping firm Golden Energy Offshore has entered into a knowledge-sharing partnership with hydrogen company Gen2 Energy to identify suitable hydrogen bunkering locations for its fleet.

PHOTO: Concept design for the two 500 container-capacity hydrogen carriers. Gen2 Energy

“The markets we are serving are increasingly demanding the most environmentally friendly solutions as using hydrogen including methanol and ammonia,” says Golden Energy’s chief Per Ivar Fagervoll.

Gen2 Energy has been raising investments to build a hydrogen supply chain in Europe. The company is building a hub in Norway’s Mosjøen to scale-up hydrogen production for bunkering and industrial consumption.

The Mosjøen hub is expected to produce 15,250 mt/year of green hydrogen. Some of it will be exported to northern European countries through its two hydrogen container carriers which, are being designed by naval architect Sirius Design & Integration.

Hydrogen has been touted as a fuel for the future with powers to decarbonise even hard-to-abate sectors like shipping. But to store and transport hydrogen in commercial quantities, cryogenic temperatures of -253°C are required to convert it into a liquid, more compressed state.

Earlier this year, Suiso Frontier became the world’s first vessel to carry a liquified hydrogen cargo, when it completed a 9,000 km voyage between Australia and Japan.