马士基与6家能源公司合作以启动绿色燃料

据能源网3月11日哥本哈根报道，全球最大的石油消费商之一的A.P.穆勒-马士基集团（A.P.Moller Maersk A/S）与六家能源公司合作，以启动绿色甲醇市场，帮助这家航运巨头摆脱化石燃料。

这家总部位于哥本哈根的公司周四表示，到2025年底，马士基每年将能够购买至少73万吨甲醇。这相当于其目前石油使用量的大约3.5%，远高于目前全球约3万吨的甲醇产量。

这一合作关系将有助于解决马士基所说的困扰绿色燃料市场的“鸡和蛋的问题”：由于目前需求很少，很少有能源公司生产绿色甲醇，而船东则不愿意建造绿色船舶，因为燃料市场太小。

马士基船队负责人Henriette Hallberg Thygesen在一份声明中表示:“为了向去碳化过渡，我们需要显著而及时地加快绿色燃料的生产。”这些伙伴关系是一个“重要的里程碑”。

马士基是世界上拥有船舶的最大航运公司，其目标是在 2040 年实现碳中和，其中包括自身和间接排放。 它已将绿色甲醇确定为最可行的航运脱碳燃料之一，该燃料约占全球排放量的3%。

马士基表示，该公司正在建造12艘大型绿色集装箱船，每年73万吨绿色甲醇的订单将足以为这些船提供动力。

这些能源公司的业务遍布各大洲，为这种燃料提供一个全球网络，预计2025年后将加快生产。它们分别是丹麦公司Orsted A/S和欧洲能源，美国的WasteFuel和瑞士的Proman等。

马士基首席执行官索伦·斯库（Soren Skou）表示，航运业可以负担得起向使用甲醇或氨的船舶过渡的费用，这一转变估计会增加10%-12%的运输成本。该公司每年消耗约1100万吨海洋石油，大致相当于世界上一天生产的所有石油。

郝芬 译自 能源网

原文如下：

Maersk Finds Partners to Make Green Fuel in Plan to Ditch Oil

A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, one of the world’s largest oil consumers, has partnered with six energy companies to jump-start the green methanol market and help the shipping giant ditch fossil fuels.

Maersk will be able to buy at least 730,000 tons of methanol per year by the end 2025, the Copenhagen-based company said on Thursday. That’s equal to roughly 3.5% of its current oil use and vastly higher than the world’s current global methanol production of about 30,000 tons. 

The partnership will help address what Maersk has described as the “chicken-and-egg problem” plaguing the green fuel market now: few energy companies produce green methanol because there’s presently little demand, while ship owners are reluctant to build green vessels because the fuel market is so small.

“To transition towards de-carbonization, we need a significant and timely acceleration in the production of green fuels,” Henriette Hallberg Thygesen, head of Maersk’s fleet, said in a statement. The partnerships represent an “important milestone.”

Maersk, the world’s largest shipping line by vessels owned, has set a goal to become carbon neutral in 2040, when including both its own and indirect emissions. It has identified green methanol as one of the most viable fuels to de-carbonize shipping, which is responsible for roughly 3% of global emissions. 

Maersk has 12 large green container vessels under construction, and the order for 730,000 tons of green methanol annually will be more than enough to power those ships, the company said. 

The energy companies have operations spread across the continents to provide a global network for the fuel, and are expected to accelerate production after 2025. They are Danish companies Orsted A/S and European Energy, WasteFuel in the U.S. and Proman in Switzerland.

Maersk Chief Executive Officer Soren Skou has said the shipping industry can afford a transition to vessels that run on methanol or ammonia, a switch estimated to add 10-12% to transport costs. The company consumes about 11 million tons of marine oil per year, roughly equal to all the oil produced in the world in a single day.