据Upstream7月20日消息，英荷超级巨头壳牌正与意大利-瑞士航运巨头地中海航运公司(MSC)合作，加速航运业的脱碳进程。
MSC证实，双方已签署长期谅解备忘录，旨在开发一系列技术，以减少现有资产的排放，并有助于航运业“实现未来净零排放”。
壳牌和MSC将探索一系列燃料选择，以使航运业脱碳，包括氢衍生燃料和使用甲醇作为船用燃料。
该合作伙伴关系还将探索在MSC的船队中使用液化天然气的机会，他们称这是“目前广泛使用的排放量最低的燃料”，同时还将考虑使用甲烷泄漏减排技术，来进一步减少LNG排放。
他们还指出，他们已经在探索从液化天然气转向生物液化天然气或合成液化天然气的潜在好处，以进一步减少排放。
生物液化天然气（Bio LNG）是一种生物燃料，通过对有机物质（如家庭、农业和工业废物）进行厌氧消化，从而产生沼气。然后将沼气中的甲烷与二氧化碳分离并液化以制造生物液化天然气。
“壳牌希望在向净零的过渡过程中发挥核心作用。与我们的客户合作开发新技术和新燃料将有助于加快进展，”壳牌海事总裁Melissa Williams说。
“将MSC作为世界最大航运公司之一的经验与壳牌作为全球能源供应商的专业知识相结合，将有助于为世界经济的这一重要部分提供有效的解决方案。”
MSC负责海事政策和政府事务的执行副总裁Bud Darr 补充说，该公司与壳牌的合作是推动航运业低碳解决方案所需承诺的一个例子。
“为了实现完全脱碳的最终目标，我们必须寻找一套解决方案。我们需要在研发和燃料开发方面取得重大进展，”他说。
“MSC欢迎与壳牌建立这样的合作伙伴关系，这些合作伙伴关系旨在促进跨部门信息共享，并证明合作是定义通向净零未来的最佳途径的关键。”
这份谅解备忘录建立在两家公司10多年的合作基础上，双方已经在多个项目上进行了合作，包括加注生物燃料以及试验极低硫和超低硫燃料。
最新的谅解备忘录还包括，两家公司可以就战略政策问题与行业和利益相关者共同参与，以加速航运业的脱碳。
祝精燕 摘译自 Upstream
原文如下：
Making sector ship-shape: Shell partners with MSC to speed up shipping's decarbonisation
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell is teaming up with Italian-Swiss shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) to speed up the decarbonisation of the shipping industry.
MSC confirmed the pair had signed a long-term memorandum of understanding to develop a range of technologies that could reduce emissions from existing assets and help to "enable a net-zero emissions future" for shipping.
Shell and MSC will explore a range of fuel options to decarbonise the shipping sector, including hydrogen-derived fuels and the use of methanol as a marine fuel.
The partnership will also explore opportunities to use liquefied natural gas in MSC’s fleet, which they stated was the “lowest emissions fuel widely available today”, while also considering methane-slip abatement technologies to further reduce LNG emissions.
They also noted they had already been exploring the potential benefits of switching from LNG to bio-LNG, or synthetic variants, to further decrease emissions.
Bio-LNG is a biofuel made via the anaerobic digestion of organic matter — such as household, agricultural and industrial waste — which results in the production of biogas. The methane in the biogas is then separated from the carbon dioxide and liquefied to make bio-LNG.
“Shell wants to play a central role in the transition to net zero. Partnering with our customers to develop new technologies and fuels will help accelerate progress,” Shell Marine president Melissa Williams said.
“Combining MSC’s experience as align="justify"> MSC’s executive vice president of maritime policy and government affairs, Bud Darr, added the company’s partnership with Shell was an example of the commitment needed to catalyse low-carbon solutions for the shipping sector.
“To reach that ultimate goal of complete decarbonisation, we must look at a set of solutions. We need significant advances in research and development and fuel development,” he said.
“MSC welcomes partnerships like this with Shell that are designed to facilitate cross-sector information sharing and prove how collaboration is key in defining the best pathway to a net-zero future.”
The MoU builds align="justify"> The latest MoU also includes scope for the companies to jointly engage with industry and stakeholders on strategic policy issues to accelerate decarbonisation of the shipping sector.