Engineering:MT Pacific Cobalt

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Short description: Singaporean oil tanker
History
Name: Pacific Cobalt
Owner: Singapore Eastern Pacific Shipping
Port of registry:  Liberia
Completed: 2020
Identification: IMO number9788617
General characteristics
Class and type: Tanker
Tonnage: 49,886 DWT
Length: 182.5 m (598 ft 9 in)
Beam: 32 m (105 ft 0 in)
Draught: 7.6 m (24 ft 11 in)

MT Pacific Cobalt is a Singaporean oil tanker built in 2020 and owned by Eastern Pacific Shipping. It is one of the first and largest ships to be installed with an onboard filtration and carbon capture system.

Description

Pacific Cobalt is a 49,700 DWT oil and chemical tanker with an overall length of 182.5 m (599 ft). It is 32 m (105 ft) wide and has an average draft of 7.6 m (25 ft).[1] It has an identical sister ship named Pacific Gold.[2]

History

In May 2022, Eastern Pacific Shipping announced that it would be working with the Netherlands-based maritime carbon capture company Value Maritime to install prefabricated "Filtree" systems.[2] The installation was finished in February 2023 after a seventeen-day construction period, and Pacific Cobalt steamed from Rotterdam to Venice shortly after the installation was completed.[3][4]

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